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Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
For let me tell you, that the more the
Benjamin Jowett • The Republic
In The Abolition of Man, published in 1943, C.S. Lewis warned us of “men without chests,” those who were never permitted an opportunity to develop an interior life of sentiment and emotion, of some devotion, indeed, and attachment to the inexplicable and perhaps indefensible.
utterly foolish;