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  "text": "Thus these three facts of experience, such facts as go to make an agnostic, are, in this view, turned totally round. I am left saying, \"Give me an explanation, first, of the towering eccentricity of man among the brutes; second, of the vast human tradition of some ancient happiness; third, of the partial perpetuation of such pagan joy in the countries of the Catholic Church.\" One explanation, at any rate, covers all three: the theory that twice was the natural order interrupted by some explosion or revelation such as people now call \"psychic.\" Once Heaven came upon the earth with a power or seal called the image of God, whereby man took command of Nature; and once again (when in empire after empire men had been found wanting) Heaven came to save mankind in the awful shape of a man. This would explain why the mass of men always look backwards; and why the only corner where they in any sense look forwards is the little continent where Christ has His Church. I know it will be said that Japan has become progressive. But how can this be an answer when even in saying \"Japan has become progressive,\" we really only mean, \"Japan has become European\"? But I wish here not so much to insist on my own explanation as to insist on my original remark. I agree with the ordinary unbelieving man in the street in being guided by three or four odd facts all pointing to something; only when I came to look at the facts I always found they pointed to something else.",
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