human
How strange it is that so many things that are self-evident nobody seems to see, and that there are so many things that are right that can't be done.
gpt
That is the way the world is made, Philip had replied. She was frequently coming out with the sort of ideas and questions that are often proposed by bright children, whose thinking processes are not only fresh but undisturbed by the sophistries or concessions that experience has woven into the thinking of our race.
human
Perhaps it hasn't your faith in the abstract.
gpt
Faith? I wonder. Do you mean that people do not dare go ahead and do things?
human
Well, partly. You see, everybody is hedged in by circumstances.
gpt
Yes. I do begin to see circumstances. I suppose I'm a sort of a goose --in the abstract, as you say. And Evelyn laughed. It was the spontaneous, contagious laugh of a child.
human
You know that Miss McDonald says I'm nothing but a little idealist.
gpt
Did you deny it?
human
Oh, no. I said, so were the Apostles, all save one--he was a realist.