I have entered at least the gate of all good philosophy.
I have come into my second childhood.
But this larger and more adventurous Christian universe has one final mark difficult to express; yet as a conclusion of the whole matter I will attempt to express it.

All the real argument about religion turns on the question of whether a man who was born upside down can tell when he comes right way up.

The primary paradox of Christianity is that the ordinary condition of man is not his sane or sensible condition; that the normal itself is an abnormality.

That is the inmost philosophy of the Fall.

In Sir Oliver Lodge's interesting new Catechism, the first two questions were: "What are you ?" and "What, then, is the meaning of the Fall of Man ?" I remember amusing myself by writing my own answers to the questions; but I soon found that they were very broken and agnostic answers.