C.S. Lewis and Owen Barfield: Do Languages Get Simpler or More Complex Over Time?

When we encounter true words, we are stirred and awakened. True sayings don’t need definitions. They are a wake-up call.

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Owen Barfield, “the first and the last Inkling” as he is often called, lived a very long life of almost a century and had a profound influence on both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.

C.S. Lewis referred to his extended dialogue with Owen Barfield as “the great war,” and he, Lewis, eventually experienced a profound mind shift from a purely at…