We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not…

C. S. Lewis
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We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2014). The Pilgrim's Regress: The Wade Annotated Edition, p.215, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
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