"Not, of course, that there is any magic about the past. People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mist

"Not, of course, that there is any magic about the past. People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the errors we are already committing; and their own errors, being now open and palpable, will not endanger us." On Reading Old Books C. S. Lewis https://bradleyggreen.com/attachments/article/97/Lewis.On-Reading-Old-Books.-CS-Lewis.pdf https://bradleyggreen.com/attachments/article/97/Lewis.On-Re...