I was startled to find that this key fitted a lock.

For instance, it was certainly odd that the modern world charged Christianity at once with bodily austerity and with artistic pomp.

But then it was also odd, very odd, that the modern world itself combined extreme bodily luxury with an extreme absence of artistic pomp.

The modern man thought Becket's robes too rich and his meals too poor.

But then the modern man was really exceptional in history; no man before ever ate such elaborate dinners in such ugly clothes.