A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines

C. S. Lewis
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A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating. ✨ C. S. Lewis (2003). A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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