Monarchy
can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the
debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no
rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a
row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they
cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour
millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or
gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it
food and it will gobble poison.
-C.S. Lewis, “Present Concerns,” 1948
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