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How do you justify the study of the humanities during a war?
- …every Christian who comes to a university must at all times face a question compared with which the questions raised by the war are relatively unimportant. He must ask hims...
Quotes from "Myth Became Fact" by C.S. Lewis
Freighted Ships: a record of all things underlined.
“Myth Became Fact” by C.S. Lewis
- Obstinacies of this sort are interesting. ‘Why not cut the cord?’ asks Corineus. ‘Everything would be much easier if you would free your though...
Quotes from Learning in War-Time
Freighted Ships: a record of all things underlined.
“Learning in War-Time” by C.S. Lewis
How do you justify the study of the humanities during a war?
- …every Christian who comes to a university must at all times face a question...
Quotes from Flannery O'Connor's Mystery and Manners
Freighted Ships: a record of all things underlined.
Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor
“The Nature and Aim of Fiction”
- I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themse...
The Best of The Lost Tools of Learning
Synopsis in a Sentence
Rasping from the once-burnished keys of learning the tarnish of roughly a century’s innovation, Dorothy Sayers lays bare the faults and forgeries of the modern education movement, excavates the lost tools of learn...
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