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Episode 124: “The Abolition of Man” by C. S. Lewis, Ch. 1

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What's Coleridge Saying About the Waterfall?

Lowis: This all goes back to descartes, right? T i. I mean, no, it wasn't his fault, but he said, i think, therefore i am. And the and this all just helping the audience here. Well'll actualy loks back up and explain that. No, let me make the bigger point than we'll come back and explain it. Louis gets upset because the text book authors, in what is supposed to be a lesson on how to write english composition, ends up being about everything but how to write. Because theys, what they say is coleridge is not making a statement about the waterfall. He is making a comment about

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