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Appealing to Moral Sentiments in an Amoral Age

On evangelism to young women, progressives, and the world

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O. Alan Noble
Apr 04, 2025
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In C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man, he laments the fact that modern educators are busy trying to inoculate young people against propaganda and advertisements by denying the validity of all sentiments. In contrast, he writes,

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right de…

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