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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FACT OF THE DAY:
On Nov. 29, 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University on his birthday. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.”
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PURCHASE The Misquotable C.S. Lewis