C. S. Lewis, from his introduction to Athanasius’s On the Incarnation:
“Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes of our own period. And that means the old books.”
I’m guessing the precious Ivy League snowflakes calling for a “trigger warning” on Ovid’s Metamorphoses wouldn’t agree.
