Tag: 1947

Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 19th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

What the Bird Said Early in the Year is a revised poem first published today (5/19) in 1938 as Chanson D’Aventure in The Oxford Magazine.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“A new Nature is being not merely made but made out of an old one. We live amid all the anomalies, inconveniences, hopes, and excitements of a house that is being rebuilt.”

Miracles: A Preliminary Study
(Published on 5/12/1947)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Who does Lucy first meet when she visits Narnia?

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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 14th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (5/14) in 1936 Lewis had Sonnet published in The Oxford Magazine under the name of Nat Whilk. It is available in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“It is probable that Nature is not really in Time and almost certain that God is not. Time is probably (like perspective) the mode of our perception.”

Miracles: A Preliminary Study
(Published on 5/12/1947)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (3 words):
“I think that if God forgives us we _____ _____ _____ .”
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 13th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Adam at Night is a poem published in Punch on 5/11/1949 then revised and re-titled as The Adam at Night in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Christianity…is precisely the story of a great Miracle. A naturalistic Christianity leaves out all that is specifically Christian.”

Miracles: A Preliminary Study
(Published on 5/12/1947)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis accepted what temporary position this month that wasn’t in a subject he is most known for?
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Daily Lewis – Fact / Quote / Quiz: May 12th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

The first edition of Miracles: A Preliminary Study was published on this day (5/12) in 1947 (a second edition came out in 1960).

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.”

Miracles: A Preliminary Study
(Published on 5/12/1947)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the full name of Bree, the horse, from The Horse and His Boy?
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RETROSPECT: May 11th – 21st

William OFlaherty Jack in Retrospect, Special Feature

Highlights for the second of May (11th – 21st) include: Initial publication of Miracles, the landmark first meeting with a famous friend and securing his longest employment.

“Miracles” is among the many misused words in our vocabulary today. This was true even back in 1947 when Miracles: A Preliminary Study was released on the 12th by C.S. Lewis. Of course, Lewis was addressing more of an unbelief in the miraculous. In fact, as the inside dusk jacket of the first edition notes, the subtitle isn’t about Lewis giving his tentative thoughts on the subject, but rather the book is designed to be “a study preliminary to any historical inquiry into the actual occurrence of miracles.” That is, before any examination of specific miracles one has to believe that the miraculous can genuinely occur. Nearly thirteen years later (as mentioned in the previous column) a new edition was released containing a revised third chapter.

Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 9th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Today (4/9) in 1941 Lewis gave his first Royal Air Force (RAF) talk at RAF Abingdon, Berkshire, England.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another except the emotional strength of that impulse.”

The Abolition of Man
(Published 4/8/1947 as the first U.S. edition)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Complete the quote and name the source (4 words):
“For change is not progress unless ______ _____ _____ _____ …wherever there is real progress in knowledge, there is some knowledge that is not superseded.”
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: April 8th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

On this date (4/8) in 1947 the first U.S. edition (a hardback) of The Abolition of Man was published.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Who said I disliked women? I never liked or disliked any generalisation.”

Letter to Margaret Fuller on 4/8/1948
(Published in The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume II)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

This month one of the three books that became a part of Mere Christianity was published; what was it?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: March 1st

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FACT OF THE DAY:

Of Lewis’s two pre-Christian books of poetry, only Dymer was republished during his lifetime.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The one really adequate instrument for learning about God is the whole Christian community.”

The Three-Personal God
(Initially a BBC broadcast from 2/29/44)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Lewis wrote a preface to Philip’s Letters to Young Churches in 1947. What is the title given to it when it appeared in a collection with other of Lewis’ essays?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 16th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“The Romantics” is a poem that was found in The New English Weekly today (1/16) in 1947, but is now know as “The Prudent Jailer.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Of all the passions, the passion for the Inner Ring is most skillful in making a man who is not yet a very bad man do very bad things.”

The Inner Ring
(Published in Screwtape Proposes a Toast on 1/4/1965)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

What is the name of Aslan’s father?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 15th

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FACT OF THE DAY:

“Pan’s Purge,” a poem by Lewis was published today (1/15) in 1947 in Punch; it’s now printed in Poems.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself.”

The Great Divorce
(Published on 1/14/1946)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Finish the quote and name the source (three words):
“In any wholesome group of people which holds together for a good purpose, the exclusions are in a sense accidental…But your genuine Inner Ring _____ _____ _____ .”
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