
Started reading Athanasius of Alexandria. On the Incarnation. GLH Publishing. Kindle Edition. It is interesting the C.S.Lewis wrote the Introduction this publication of the works.
C.S.Lewis Introduction: It has always therefore been one of my main endeavours as a teacher to persuade the young that first-hand knowledge is not only more worth acquiring than second-hand knowledge, but is usually much easier and more delightful to acquire.
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books (p. 7)
His epitaph is Athanasius contra mundum, “Athanasius against the world.” We are proud that our own country has more than once stood against the world (p. 10).