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

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The Dwarfs Are for the Dwarves

Professor says the old and new education is just competing propaganda. He goes on to say, we were told all this long ago by plato. And then he starts talking about the head and the belly and the chest. This would be the renaissance idea of the large souled man. His passions are ordered in control? They're not denied, right? You don't say, i refuse to anger?' So that's what he's getting at with this tripartite saying: 'Impeach me!'

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