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Chapther 2: The Maniac (questions down below)

The Maniac

1. What does Chesterton mean by “sanity,” and why is it at once something obvious and yet immensely strange?

2. What is the trouble with “believing in [oneself]”?

3. What is the chief source of modern madness, and why is a recovery of imagination so crucial for its cure?

4. Why are scientific materialism and individual solipsism so oddly linked? How does Chesterton explain and compare the two?

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Chesterton is referring to madness, obvious in its actions because the madness is directly related to logic, reason, and inability to see beyond the absurdness of their own arguments.

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