As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, ev…

C. S. Lewis
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As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism. ✨ The Weight of Glory. Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.
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