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welcome to the podcast episode 65

great to have year

now the thing I want to talk about initially is the problem that is created by perfectionists or

purists in various disciplines, various areas. I'm fond of saying that God is perfect, which means he's not a perfectionist.

God is perfect, not a perfectionist.

What we tend to do over and over again is that when we make the best into the

enemy of the good and and we do this in many different ways

and in many different areas.

We think that if one's good, two's better.

Don't force it, as we used to say in the Navy. Don't force it, get a better. Don't force it, as we used to say in the Navy. Don't force it, get a bigger hammer.

Purists are often the enemy of improvement. They're the enemy of growth.

So for, here's one example.

In the introduction to his great book, English literature in the 16th century,

the introduction is something like God. great book, English Literature in the 16th century.

The introduction is something like 62 pages.

And that introduction really ought to be published separately

as its own little booklet, because you will learn all kinds of things about

humanists and the Puritans and the whole cultural mele of that time.

Anyway, Lewis critiques the humanists, the people who were engaged in recovering the classical languages

and trying to rebuild the whole classical world, Lewis charges them with having been the death of the thing

they were trying to recover. So for example, we need to realize that down to the beginning of the modern era and as late as the 1700s.

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