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C.S. Lewis on Reading Old Books

January 23, 2009

A bit of reading for you for a winter Friday: an excerpt from C.S. Lewis’s preface to Athanasius: On the Incarnation.
There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Thus I have found [...]

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