“Mr. Neo-Angular – I am doing my duty. My ethics are based on dogma, not on feeling. Vertue – I know that a rule is to be obeyed because it is a rule and not because it appeals to my feelings at the moment.”

— Clive Staples Lewis, book The Pilgrim's Regress

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The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)

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