C.S. Lewis on Old Books | Episode XIV
New Humanists
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On the Incarnation
Icas louis lewis uses the word to mean that inconsolable longing in the heart for we know not what. Call it joy kind of joyful longing, nastalgic longing. At the end of pilgrim's regress, he sensut that an unnamable something, desire for which pierces us like a rapier at the smell of bonfire. This i find curiously consoling. It is at her centre where her truest children dwell. Each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is something or some one who, against all divergencies of belief, all differences of temperament
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