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The C.S. Lewis podcast

#62 First and Second Things - CS Lewis’ essays and short writings

Jul 11, 2022
18:15

Oringally published in 1942 this essay argues that humans often turn 'second order' things such as music, art, romatic love etc into 'first order' things in place of God. In doings so they lose the joy of those things in the process. "You can't get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first."

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