“There is still life in the tradition which the Middle Ages inaugurated. But the maintenance of that life depends, in part, on knowing that the knightly character is art not nature—something that needs to be achieved, not something that can be relied upon to happen.”
The Necessity of Chivalry
(Published in Time and Tide on 8/17/1940)
FACT: August 17, 2013
The essay now known as “The Necessity of Chivalry” was first published today in 1940 in Time and Tide.
Problem of Pain (CSLM-09)
Do you have a problem with pain? You might say C.S. Lewis had such a problem with it that he wrote a book about it!
No one really enjoys suffering. Whenever possible you try to avoid it. What if someone asked you, as was the case with Lewis, to write on the subject? He felt, at first, that if he really said what he thought about pain he’d prefer to write it anonymously.