[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male, companion, was copulation. For (b) there is a "peculiar comfort" in the society of man and woman "beside, (i.e. in addition to, apart from) the genial bed"; and (c) we know from Scripture that something analogous to "play" or "slackening the cords" occurs even in God. That is why the Song of Songs describes a thousand raptures...far on the hither side of carnal enjoyment.
C. S. LewisEverywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.
C. S. LewisThe process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.
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