Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel
-G. K. Chesterton
Odd that Chesterton should use the example of a camel to make his case about essentialism and Catholic natural law, even squeezing in an oblique reference to the hump as a cross to bear. If he’d known anything about camel physiology, he’d have instead described it as a stoup for holy water, or perhaps the icon of Zoödochus Pege, the Spring of Life Giving Water outside Istanbul’s old city walls, where monks sell bottles of the stuff to pilgrims to take home. Not Qirba size, but enough for wetting the mouths of drovers on the Darb.