• In truth it is inequality that is the illusion. The extreme disproportion between men, that we seem to see in life, is a thing of changing lights and lengthening shadows. A twilight full of fancies and distortions....It is the experience of men that always returns to the equality of men; it is the average that ultimately justifies the average man. It is when  men have seen and suffered much and come at the end of their elaborate experiments, that they see men under an equal light of death and daily laughter; and none the less mysterious for being many (p. 19).

 What I think Chesterton is trying to say in this quote is, when it comes down to it, no man is unequal, we are all in one sense the same. Extreme ideas of inequalities are just a figment of out imagination; made up. Through the experiences of men, the realization of equality comes back around and through much suffering, we all do the same thing which is either laugh an or die; not much of an equality among men.

 I can see what Chesterton is saying, but I have to disagree. Every man is different and goes through different types of struggles. We are the same in the sense that we have struggles, but it is the types of struggles that shows a difference. I think inequalities are real and are not made up. People's individual difference(race, s.e.s., religion) already puts that inequality wall up.