On "Everlasting Man" by G. K. Chesterton

Chesterton's first analogy of the boy who lives upon the giant and who dreams of finding such a thing by travelling far away, but who then, after travelling comes to realize that he had it all along, this compared to the dichotomy of a Christian in possession of faith to an atheist in possession of knowledge of Christianity, is in my opinion a useful comparison, but his assumption that the former case is inherently of greater property than the latter is, in my opinion, not only naïve but also indicative of a singular mindset that has yet to comprehend true empathy with mutually exclusive paradigms. It seems to me as if he has realized, perhaps by way of inspiration, perhaps by way of unconscious conviction, that the value of a separate paradigm, that of knowledge, of a perspective originating from without the subject, is incontrovertible, and yet even being in possession of such comprehension, he cannot yet bring himself to admit this paradigm as of equal value to his first paradigm of faith, therefore he must phrase his apprehension of it only as the "next best thing." It will remain to be seen in the continuation of his text whether this original problem with his thesis is ever resolved satisfactorily, but at the moment I doubt that such shall be the case, in which case, even should he prove to his own satisfaction his thesis, I foresee that I shall be disappointed with the effort.