Wednesday, May 27, 2026
The Humanists
C.S. Lewis, letter to Douglas Bush (March 28, 1941):
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I take a less favourable view of the Humanists than you. I've never quite forgiven them for killing live Latin and erecting the mausoleum of Ciceronianism over its corpse—specially when they themselves have to fall back on that live Latin and do so without gratitude ('quod barbari nostri circumstantias vocant' says J.C. Scaliger).
