OCTOBER 8th
When your father told you, walking about the garden, that bees stung or that roses smell sweet, you did not talk of taking the best out of his philosophy. When the bees stung you, you did not call it an entertaining coincidence; when the rose smelt sweet you did not say, ‘My father is a rude, barbaric symbol enshrining (perhaps unconsciously) the deep delicate truth that flowers smell.’ No, you believed your father because you had found him to be a living fountain of facts, a thing that really knew more than you; a thing that would tell you the truth to-morrow, as well as to-day.
‘Orthodoxy.’
Chesterton, G. K.. The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] (Kindle Locations 45060-45065). Catholic Way Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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