If you want strength, you must exercise; if you want to understand morality, you must try to be moral. It is this conviction that lies behind a curious little phrase in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. When Aslan is de-petrifying the stone statues in the witch’s castle, he breathes on the feet of a giant and declares, “Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.”88 Likewise, in The Pilgrim’s Regress, we read that the Shepherd people (i.e., the Jews) had “their feet set on a road: and . . . if the feet have been put right the hands and the head will come right sooner or
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