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HUMAN WICKEDNESS
Part 2 C. S. Lewis 6. Perhaps my harping on the word ‘kindness’ has already aroused a protest in some readers’ minds. Are we not really an increasingly cruel age? Perhaps we are: but I think we have become so in the attempt to reduce all virtues to kindness. For Plato rightly taught that virtue…
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HUMAN WICKEDNESS
Part 1 C. S. Lewis You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are humble enough. LAW, Serious Call, cap. XVI The examples given in the last chapter went to show that love may cause pain to its object, but only on the supposition that that object needs alteration…