FACT OF THE DAY:
Lewis’s inaugural lecture for Cambridge University was given on this date (11/29) in 1954. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.”
De Descriptione Temporum
(Inaugural lecture given by Lewis on 11/29/54)
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