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The Pilgrim’s Regress: An Allegorical Apology for Christianity Reason and Romanticism is unavailable, but you can change that!

The first book written by C. S. Lewis after his conversion, The Pilgrim’s Regress is, in a sense, the record of Lewis’ own search for meaning and spiritual satisfaction—a search that eventually led him to Christianity. Here is the story of the pilgrim John and his odyssey to an enchanting island which has created in him an intense longing; a mysterious, sweet desire. John’s pursuit of this...

Myself am to myself, a mortal God, a self-contained Unwindowed monad, unindebted and unstained.’ John and the Guide were hurrying past, but Vertue hesitated. ‘Her means may be wrong,’ he said, ‘but there is something to be said for her idea of the End.’ ‘What idea?’ said the Guide. ‘Why—self-sufficiency, integrity. Not to commit herself, you know. All said and done, there is something foul about all these natural processes.’ ‘You had better be careful of your thoughts here,’ said the Guide. ‘Do not
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