# CH03.P010

Lest this should be called loose assertion, it is perhaps desirable, though dull, to run rapidly through the chief modern fashions of thought which have this effect of stopping thought itself. Materialism and the view of everything as a personal illusion have some such effect; for if the mind is mechanical, thought cannot be very exciting, and if the cosmos is unreal, there is nothing to think about. But in these cases the effect is indirect and doubtful. In some cases it is direct and clear; notably in the case of what is generally called evolution.

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, edition pg16769-r1. https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH03.P010/

## Annotations

- [Mechanical thought and the possibility of inquiry](https://glosses.org/a/a_dfbruxib/)
- [A world of ideas need not be a private illusion](https://glosses.org/a/a_xlxlj5xc/)