“As long as we are thinking only of natural values we must say that the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him; and that all economies, politics, laws, armies, and institutions, save insofar as they prolong and multiply such scenes, are a mere ploughing the sand and sowing the ocean, a meaningless vanity and vexation of spirit.” —C.S. Lewis, “Membership,” in The Weight of Glory.
I was glad to (re-)discover recently that Lewis wrote an essay on membership, a concept expanded upon so richly later by Wendell Berry. A person could get a lot of mileage out of reading the essay alongside Berry’s work.
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