Unless we are all mad there is at the back of the most bewildering business astory and if we are all mad there is no such thing as madness. If I set ahouse on f... » 

Unless we are all mad there is at the back of the most bewildering business astory and if we are all mad there is no such thing as madness. If I set ahouse on fire it is quite true that I may illuminate many other peoplesweaknesses as well as my own. It may be that the master of the house was burnedbecause he was drunk it may be that the mistress of the house was burnedbecause she was stingy and perished arguing about the expense of a fireescape. It is nevertheless broadly true that they both were burned because Iset fire to their house. That is the story of the thing. The mere facts of thestory about the present European conflagration are quite as easy to tell. G.K. Chesterton «