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Reflections: First And Second Things - C.S. Lewis Institute

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In an essay first published in 1942, C.S. Lewis discussed a principle concerning first and second things. An excerpt follows:Until quite modern times — I think, until the time of the Romantics — nobody ever suggested that literature and the arts were an end in themselves.

Reflections: First And Second Things - C.S. Lewis Institute Reflections: First And Second Things Back to series By C.S. Lewis Institute on July 1, 2017 Reflections , Reflections 2017 , C.S. Lewis Institute July 2017 In an essay first published in 1942, C.S. Lewis discussed a principle concerning first and second things. An excerpt follows: Until quite modern times — I think, until the time of the Romantics — nobody ever suggested that literature and the arts were an end in themselves. They “belonged to the ornamental part of life”, they provided “innocent diversion”; or else they “refined our

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