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How to Read History or "De Descriptione Temporum" by C.S. Lewis

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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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