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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 24th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

All the letters of the alphabet are used for names of the characters in Narnia except one, none of them start with the letter “x.”

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary colour in the spectrum.”

The Poison of Subjectivism
(Published in Christian Reflections on 1/23/1967)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

We know that Perelandra is Venus, but what is Earth’s name?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: January 3rd

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

FACT OF THE DAY:

The essay “Religion and Science” was published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on this day (1/3) in 1945.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“If there were anything outside Nature, and if it interfered – then the events which the scientist expected wouldn’t follow. That would be what we call a miracle.”

Religion and Science
(Published in The Coventry Evening Telegraph on 1/3/1945)

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QUIZ OF THE DAY:

Although fourteen chapters are in The Great Divorce, it was first published in how many weekly installments?
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Fact / Quote / Quiz: November 29th

William OFlaherty Daily Lewis

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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