There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by professionals, and that the amateur should content himself with the modern books. Thus I have found as a tutor in English Literature that if the average student wants to find out something about Platonism, the very last thing he thinks of doing is to take a translation of Plato off the library shelf and read the Symposium. He would rather read some dreary modern book ten times as long, all about ‘isms’ and influences and only once in twelve pages telling him what Plato actually said.
- C.S. Lewis, Introduction to Athanasius’s On The Incarnation
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Jonah (Admin)
7/3/2015 08:04:53 am
Athanasius, and C.S. Lewis. Introduction. On the Incarnation. San Bernardino, CA: Fig, 2012.
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