C. S. Lewis Quotes

The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

C. S. Lewis

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• The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Past
  • Animal
  • Assumption