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The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a sense of sin which they already had—and sin, not against some new fancy-dress law produced as a novelty by a "great man", but against the old, platitudinous, universal moral law which they had been taught by their nurses and mothers.†
Chpt 23

novelty = the quality of being new and original
He gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year the same, so that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an immemorial theme.†
Chpt 25
Now just as we pick out and exaggerate the pleasure of eating to produce gluttony, so we pick out this natural pleasantness of change and twist it into a demand for absolute novelty.†
Chpt 25
If we neglect our duty, men will be not only contented but transported by the mixed novelty and familiarity of snowdrops this January, sunrise this morning, plum pudding this Christmas.†
Chpt 25
The pleasure of novelty is by its very nature more subject than any other to the law of diminishing returns.†
Chpt 25 *
And continued novelty costs money, so that the desire for it spells avarice or unhappiness or both.†
Chpt 25
Finally, the desire for novelty is indispensable if we are to produce Fashions or Vogues.†
Chpt 25

Definitions:

(1) (novel as in: a novel situation)
new and original -- typically something considered good
(2) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
More commonly, novel is used as a noun to refer to a work of fiction that is published as a book. In the form novelty, the word can refer to an inexpensive, mass-produced item of interest such as a toy, trinket, or item given away to advertise.