In The Everlasting Man, G. K. Chesterton begins his essay on "The End of the World" by noting his introduction to a new religion.
I was once sitting on a summer day in a meadow in Kent under the shadow of a little village church, with a rather curious companion with whom I had just been walking through the woods. He was one of a group of eccentrics I had come across in my wanderings who had a new religion called Higher Thought; in which I had been so far initiated as to realise a general atmosphere of loftiness or height, and was hoping at some later or more esoteric stage to discover the beginning of thought.
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