
How to Read History or "De Descriptione Temporum" by C.S. Lewis
Wade Center
The Power of Magnetism in Art
The idea is that, you know, mechanical change or computer change is a metaphor for everything getting better. So there were two other sort of paradigms that he introduces in this that I were to me were really revolutionary. He talks about science as a lion and then later on when it first tastes blood. And so I thought that was a really fascinating idea rather than seeing science as a liberator or as something which necessarily exalts us viewing it as a predator who tries to prey upon humanity. That was a very powerful metaphor. Then the other one that really stood out to me was he says, if I wish to satirize the present political order, I should borrow for it the
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