Fantastic edition of Crocodiles! I'm now curious to read the Ransom Trilogy. Lewis certainly had his finger on the pulse of something wicked coming our way. He even touches on these modern ills in the addendum to The Screwtape Letters, titled "Screwtape Proposes A Toast". I quote, "For
'democracy' or the 'democratic spirit' (diabolical sense) leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates. morally flaccid from lack of discipline in youth, full of the cocksure-ness which flattery breeds on ignorance, blustering or whimpering if rebuked. And that is what Hell wishes every democratic people to be."
Fantastic edition of Crocodiles! I'm now curious to read the Ransom Trilogy. Lewis certainly had his finger on the pulse of something wicked coming our way. He even touches on these modern ills in the addendum to The Screwtape Letters, titled "Screwtape Proposes A Toast". I quote, "For
'democracy' or the 'democratic spirit' (diabolical sense) leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates. morally flaccid from lack of discipline in youth, full of the cocksure-ness which flattery breeds on ignorance, blustering or whimpering if rebuked. And that is what Hell wishes every democratic people to be."
Thank you David!
That Lewis quote looks familiar... think I saw it in one of his essays in 'God in the Dock'...
And glad you're a Paul Johnson fan. He's coming up next!
Also, a big +1 for Paul Johnson & A History of the American People!