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C. S. Lewis Quotes: Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
         

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.


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