Be a Human with a Chest

In 1943, C. S. Lewis gave a series of talks about this middle sphere of the human person, which he calls “the chest — the seat of Magnanimity, of emotions organized by trained habit into stable sentiments.” This part of the person is what makes us human beings. It is our heart, the place where morality is felt and willed. According to Lewis, “It may even be said that it is by this middle e

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