Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‘people.’ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war…. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest .

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer and scholar [Clive Staples Lewis]
The Abolition of Man

 
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