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The book is developed as an intellectual quest by a spiritually curious person who is looking for the ultimate truth about the meaning of life and ends up with his own truth, made exactly to fit human needs. "By coincidence", this truth is the same one proposed by Christianity. Chesterton likens this discovery to a man setting off from the south coast of England, journeying for many days, only to arrive at Brighton , the point he originally left from. Such a man, he posits, would see the wondrous place he grew up in with newly appreciative eyes. This is a common theme in Chesterton's works, and one which he gave fictional embodiment to in '' Manalive ''. In keeping with this detachment from dogmatic religion, the book has barely any quotation from Scripture or any authoritative statement by a religious authority. It is mostly presented as a free intellectual inquiry by somebody who is looking for an explanation of the mysteries of human existence and wants that explanation to be satisfactory to his own Reason . EXTERNAL LINKS
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