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In Christian Reflections, C. S. Lewis brings his vast and original intellect to bear on a wealth of subjects, including ethics, historicism, Christianity, and culture. This selection of essays and papers, drawn from all stages of his career, presents Lewis at his most varied and profound.

we have been, in some sort we are still. Neither the form nor the sentiment of this old poetry has passed away without leaving indelible traces on our minds. We shall understand our present, and perhaps even our future, the better if we can succeed, by an effort of the historical imagination, in reconstructing that long-lost state of mind for which the allegorical love poem was a natural mode of expression. But we shall not be able to do so unless we begin by carrying our attention back to a period
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