![]() ![]() ![]() The incident also shows his unconcern for material things. He didn’t play favorites, he was a true egalitarian. Chesterton points out that Francis always treated everyone equally, as a brother, whether they were from a high or low station. Francis left his market stall (with presumably a lot of valuable stock unattended) to hunt down the beggar in the narrow byways of Assisi and give him the money he had just made. ![]() When he was finished with the merchant, he turned to help the beggar who had left. ![]() Trying to please two supplicants at the same time was impossible for Francis though he clearly wanted to. In an early event, he was working for his father as a cloth merchant, negotiating with a purchaser while a beggar was also asking Francis for alms. Instead, Chesterton focuses on a few key events in Francis’s life and meditates on how those events reveal Francis. His first and least obvious solution is to eschew the typical biography’s strictly historical retelling of someone’s life, where they start with his birth on such and such a date at a certain place and recite all the famous historical and personal events up to his burial on such and such a date at a certain place. Chesterton flies over such hurdles by several methods. ![]()
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