Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to p…

C. S. Lewis
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Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position. ✨ C. S. Lewis, Michael Ward (2017). The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality: A Critical Edition by Michael Ward, p.59, TellerBooks
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