“If you dip into any
college, or school, or parish, or family – anything you like – at a given point
in its history, you always find that there was a time before that point where
there was more elbow room and contrasts weren't quite so sharp; and that there’s
going to be a time after that point when there is even less room for indecision
and choices are even more momentous. Good is always getting better and bad is
always getting worse: the possibilities of even apparent neutrality are always
diminishing. The whole thing is sorting itself out all the time, coming to a
point, getting sharper and harder. Like the poem about Heaven and Hell eating
into merry Middle Earth from opposite sides…”
-- C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
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