From G.K. Chesterton's The Father Brown Omnibus, the story The Duel of Dr. Hirsch. In my edition, page 264.
This calls to mind a very specific character; one that I encounter far too often. The person who is deeply and well versed in a particular belief, though one that is not actually provable.
They were both young. They were both atheists, with a depressing fixity of outlook but great mobility of exposition.
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