“But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?”

—  Clive Staples Lewis , book The Pilgrim's Regress

Pilgrim’s Regress 132–133
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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