duty parents a superstition, duty posterity. justice a superstition, d — C.S. Lewis, Abolition Man

C.S. Lewis The Abolition of Man

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If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then so is my duty to my country or my race. If the pursuit of scientific knowledge is a real value, then so is conjugal fidelity. The rebellion of new ideologies against the Tao is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves.

C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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