Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so f…

C. S. Lewis
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Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors. ✨ C.S. Lewis (1996). Joyful Christian, p.208, Simon and Schuster
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