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 …
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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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 29, 1898 Lewis was …
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) – – – FACT OF THE DAY: On Nov. 29, 1898 Lewis was …
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.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical …
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.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are …
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (Nov. 29) in 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without …
FACT OF THE DAY: Today (11/29) in 1898 Lewis was born and in 1954 he gave his inaugural lecture for Cambridge University. It was called “De Descriptione Temporum.” – – – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I think no class of men are less enslaved to the past than historians. The unhistorical are usually, without knowing …
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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QUIZ OF THE DAY:
In “The Great Divorce” the residents of what place go on a holiday trip to where?
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Interestingly it was on Lewis’s fifty-sixth birthday (in 1954) that he gave what hard-core enthusiasts of his works often consider one of his best talks to a non-religious audience. “De Descriptione Temporum” are not words you hear every day, but they were fitting as a title for his inaugural lecture as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at Cambridge University. The translation for this Latin title is “a description of the times.” The Internet Archive has a copy of the complete text. Later it was recorded (4/1/1955) as a radio broadcast for the BBC where the title was “The Great Divide” and aired on April 6, 1955. You can get a copy of this recording, along with other audio featuring his voice from Episcopal Marketplace.
As you might imagine, there are differences between the radio version and the actual address. If you have both you will want to listen to it and follow along the printed version to see Lewis’s ability to adapt a text to different audiences.
