C.S. Lewis on Reading Old Books
C.S. Lewis couldn’t have predicted the details of this digital age and yet his wisdom might be exactly what we need to hear right now. Justin Dyer has written a very interesting article on this for Forbes.
In our mass democratic culture, where majority sentiment ruthlessly limits the moral and intellectual horizon, reading old books is especially important. Our only palliative to the pressures of the present outlook, Lewis concluded, “is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only be reading old books.”
You can find the full article here.
