Learning in War-Time
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Learning in War-Time by C. S. Lewis A sermon preached in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, Autumn, 1939 A University is a society for the pursuit of learning. As students, you will be expected to make yourselves, or to start making yourselves, in to what the Middle Ages called clerks: into philosophers, scientists, scholars, critics, or historians. And at first sight this seems to be an odd thing to do during a great war. What is the use of beginning a task which we have so little chance of finishing? Or, even…
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