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Narnia is primarily an allegory about the relationship between Jesus and his followers, but Lewis also wrote about politics.

Which book is it from? "I had forgotten that you are only a common boy. How should you understand the reasons of State? You must learn, child, that what would be wrong for you or for any of the common people is not wrong in a great Queen such as I. The weight of the world is on our shoulders."

C.S. Lewis didn’t care for magicians. In fact, as Lewis wrote in The Abolition of Man, he saw the core problem that magicians were trying to solve one that was at best distasteful, and at worst something that led to actions “disgusting and impious.” That core problem: “how to subdue reality to the wishes of men.” (We won’t get into this much yet, but he saw magicians and scientists as related in this sense…something we will discuss more when we get to the Space Trilogy.) For the “wise men of old” the core question of the universe was “how to conform the soul to reality,�...