Chesterton begins chapter five with an introduction to pessimism and optimism. He sets both ideas up as the two main views in which the world is traversed by human minds. But whether one is an optimist or a pessimist, Chesterton believes that both have reasons to love this world. Having been born here, all of humanity has set about to make this place their home and to fight for their place. We have fought for this world not because we sought her out and loved her over all the others, but because we were born here. Rather than optimism or pessimism, we love our world with patriotism. We fight for her to uphold her good and to overcome her bad. We are born patriots. It is this unearned and unconditional love that helps to make the world great. Chesterton says, |
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I understand that stereotyping can be bad, in a sense. It is dehumanizing and disrespectful to attribute ills or deficiencies simply because someone is part of a particular group, without getting to know the individual. But in another sense, why should naturalism concern itself with denouncing stereotypes? In fact, naturalism should be encouraging them, as I plan on showing in the following paragraphs.
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