“ The man who has risen in society is over-refined, the young scholar is pedantic. ”
C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters (1942). copy citation
| Author | C. S. Lewis |
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| Source | The Screwtape Letters |
| Topic | society scholar |
| Date | 1942 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.truechristianity.info/en/the_screwtape_letters.php |
Context
“Now the element of ignorance and naпvety in all this is so large, and the element of spiritual pride so small, that it gives us little hope of the girl herself. But have you thought of how it can be made to influence your own patient?
It is always the novice who exaggerates. The man who has risen in society is over-refined, the young scholar is pedantic. In this new circle your patient is a novice. He is there daily meeting Christian life of a quality he never before imagined and seeing it all through an enchanted glass because he is in love. He is anxious”
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