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🗓️ 5 December 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Douglas Wilson's Blog and May Blog, presented by Canon Press. |
0:11.6 | In which C.S. Lewis wants some punks to get off his lawn, December 5th, 2022. |
0:18.1 | Introduction. |
0:19.1 | I recently worked through all of C.S. Lewis's short essays again, and as a consequence, |
0:23.5 | read his piece, The Linquents in the Snow, yet one more time. |
0:26.7 | He wrote this piece after some young hooligans in his neighborhood, had robbed him of some |
0:31.0 | things, had been caught, and were brought up before a liberal lady judge. |
0:35.2 | As Lewis sat in the courtroom, the judge had then admonished the boys, that they really |
0:39.5 | must cease with these childish pranks. |
0:42.4 | In the course of his griping about this wrist slap, C.S. Lewis also offered, as was his |
0:47.0 | custom, some prescient observations about our time. |
0:50.7 | The reason Lewis was able to do this, along with others like him, was not because he understood |
0:55.1 | the future. |
0:56.1 | No, rather his wisdom was found in the fact that he understood men. |
1:00.8 | Lewis, on point. |
1:02.5 | When the hand of the law is slack and ungodly ways, the price is paid by that society's |
1:07.5 | best and most reliable citizens, and in such a way as to demoralize them over time. |
1:13.5 | Quote, for those who suffer are chiefly the provident, the resolute, the men who want |
1:18.5 | to work, who have built up in the face of implacable discouragement, some sort of life |
1:23.3 | worth preserving, and wish to preserve it. |
1:25.7 | That most, by no means all of them, our middle class is not very relevant. |
1:30.2 | They do not get their qualities from a class. |
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