![]() ![]() But this is little more than a rediscovery in scientific terms of what had already been understood “poetically” in all previous civilizations. The old cosmos might not be a very useful map for space travelers, but it does alright as a map for worshippers.Įcologists tell us that the interdependence of all living things makes the world more than a mechanism, more than the sum of its parts, perhaps even in some sense organically alive in its own right. ![]() ![]() Lewis described the medieval “cosmos” as “tingling with anthropomorphic life, dancing, a festival not a machine.” The modern “universe,” he believed, is devoid of significance, and so we have to give a meaning to our own lives, by willpower if necessary. ![]()
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