the most interesting matter involving Owen Barfield’s abandonment of materialism as he embraced anthroposophy. Barfield and Lewis had several long discussions about the change, but we do not have the substantive details.131 We do know that their prolonged dialogue would eventually play a role in Lewis’s abandonment of materialism. The most important matter at this stage in their relationship, however, involved a view of history. Like all good modernists since the
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