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It seems even St. Francis experienced his most formative growth in the tide of warfare, growing from boy to man, from fool to apostle.

The modern man reads himself into every historical character or people group. He cannot remove himself from his mind when observing the tale of another. Chesterton recognizing this stresses the importance of knowing the person, his point in history, the world he knows.