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To: Constant Reader who wrote (154)	2/18/2001 12:36:52 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51711

Wow- very nice. You are on a hot streak with the quotes this morning. he sounds very interesting (although how anyone can argue things are supposed to "make sense" beats me)- I found this on Amazon: One of C. S. Lewis' Ten Most Influential Books, June 9, 2000 Reviewer: Mike Perry from Seattle In 1962, C. S. Lewis rated this one of the ten books that most influenced him. It is based on a lecture series Arthur J. Balfour (British Prime Minister from 1902-05) gave at the University of Glasgow in 1914. It's not light reading, but the point it has to make is provocative. Balfour makes a good case that naturalism--the belief that only natural processes exist--has no reason to believe that human reason can be trusted, that our ethics have any meaning, or that our love of beauty has any significance. Humanism, he says, makes sense only if Theism is true. The good news is that you don't have to hunt for a rare and tattered used version. It should be back in print by the end of June, 2000. A new and greatly enhanced edition is being published by Inkling Books. It should be available through Amazon.com.