In “Orthodoxy,” his masterpiece of Christian apologetics, G.Okay. Chesterton noticed one thing fascinating about bards and rationalists: “The poet solely asks to get his head into the heavens. It’s the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it’s his head that splits.”
I shared this statement with my eldest son, Joe, early in his school profession, when he advised me he’d declared math as a serious. Chesterton’s warning wasn’t towards utilizing logic, solely embracing it to the exclusion of all else. The subject got here up once more just lately over dinner when Joe, now a senior, defined one thing counterintuitive to his outdated man.
