Milk and Meaning: C.S. Lewis on the Spirit of the Age and the Battle for Logos

We know milk by its taste. We know dung by its stench.

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In C.S. Lewis’s Pilgrim’s Regress, a man by the name of John is captivated by the Spirit of the Age. John walks into an inn and orders some milk for breakfast.

After tasting the milk he commented to the waiter that it was delicious. The waiter replied, “Milk is only the secretion of a cow, just like urine and feces.”

John ordered eggs. Afte…