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THE_BLUE_CROSS

                                             June 17, 2008


   "Reason and justice grip the remotest and the loneliest star.
   Look at those stars.  Don't they look as if they were single
   diamonds and sapphires?  Well, you can imagine any mad botany or
   geology you please.  Think of forests of adamant with leaves of
   brilliants.  Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine
   sapphire.  But don't fancy that all that frantic astronomy would
   make the smallest difference to the reason and justice of conduct.
   On plains of opal, under cliffs cut out of pearl, you would still
   find a notice-board, `Thou shalt not steal.'"

          -- Father Brown in G.K. Chesterton's
             "The Blue Cross" (1911),


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