12/24-31 Weekly Dose of C.S. Lewis Quotes

Below you’ll see seven quotes selected from a variety of Lewis’s works over the years that are related to this week (or month). There is also a special video version of this for my YouTube channel, Knowing and Understanding C.S. Lewis, and an audio-only version via my podcast, All About Jack. Direct links to each version are …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: 12/30

FACT OF THE DAY: On December 29, 1944 the essay “Private  Bates” was published in The Spectator. Now available in Present Concerns. – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make …

Fact / Quote / Quiz: December 30th

FACT OF THE DAY:

On December 29, 1944 the essay “Private Bates” was published in The Spectator. Now available in Present Concerns.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We must get rid of our arrogant assumption that it is the masses who can be led by the nose. As far as I can make out, the shoe is on the other foot. The only people who are really the dupes of their favourite newspapers are the intelligentsia. It is they who read leading articles: the poor read the sporting news, which is mostly true.”

Private Bates
(Published in The Spectator on 12/29/1944)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

How long did it take Lewis to write the first five published Narnia books?
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