"What is now common to all men is a mere abstract universal, an H.C.F. [Highest Common Factor], and Man's conquest of himself means simply the rule of the Conditioners over the conditioned human material, the world of post-humanity which, some knowingly and some unknowingly, nearly all men in all nations are at present labouring to produce."
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Christian apologistsAnglicans from the United KingdomUniversity of Oxford facultyTheologians from Northern IrelandPeople from Belfast
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C. S. Lewis
1898 – 1963
irischer Schriftsteller und Literaturwissenschaftler
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