“If anything extraordinary seems to have happened, we can always say that we have been the victims of an illusion. If we hold a philosophy which excludes the supernatural, this is what we always shall say.”

—  Clive Staples Lewis, book Miracles

Source: Miracles (1947), Ch. 1: "The Scope of this Book"

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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