# CH09.P023

And its despair is this, that it does not really believe that there is any meaning in the universe; therefore it cannot hope to find any romance; its romances will have no plots. A man cannot expect any adventures in the land of anarchy. But a man can expect any number of adventures if he goes travelling in the land of authority. One can find no meanings in a jungle of scepticism; but the man will find more and more meanings who walks through a forest of doctrine and design. Here everything has a story tied to its tail, like the tools or pictures in my father's house; for it is my father's house. I end where I began--at the right end. I have entered at least the gate of all good philosophy. I have come into my second childhood.

Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, edition pg16769-r1. https://glosses.org/orthodoxy/pg16769-r1/CH09.P023/

## Annotations

- [Childhood as a condition of entrance](https://glosses.org/a/a_qa4dz54l/)
- [The world as an intelligible mystery](https://glosses.org/a/a_mbpvjf3n/)