Bacon warned us long ago that ‘the human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles’ (Novum Organum, I, 45).
Lewis is tough for me sometimes. But, if I can't get it from his simple, straightforward way, I'm not likely to get it at all.
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Brian Eshleman
