flame moves upwards and solid bodies move downwards because they want to go, you may call it ‘home’.”7 Anticipating the modern response to this conception, Lewis asks: “Did they really think all matter was sentient? Apparently not. They will distinguish animate and inanimate as clearly as we do; will say that stones, for example, have only being; vegetables being and life; animals, being, life and sense; man, being, life, sense and reason.”8 Lewis makes the point that the medievals used this language