These doodles are really teachers’ tools, and require someone to breakdown to students some of the ideas touched on very briefly in the doodle. You can find my doodle of the Lewis’ second talk here, called ‘The Reality of the Moral law”: I have also added and deleted where I thought I understood any part of my subject better now than ten years ago or where I knew that the original version had been misunderstood by others.” In this “Mere Christianity” edition I have expanded the contractions and replaced most of the italics by recasting the sentences in which they occurred: but without altering, I hope, the “popular” or “familiar” tone which I had all along intended. He has his own, different, means of bringing out the key words and ought to use them. A talker ought to use variations of voice for emphasis because his medium naturally lends itself to that method: but a writer ought not to use italics for the same purpose. “I am now inclined to think that this was a mistake-an undesirable hybrid between the art of speaking and the art of writing. And wherever, in the talks, I had made the importance of a word clear by the emphasis of my voice, I printed it in italics.” In the printed version I reproduced this, putting don’t and we’ve for do not and we have. In my talks I had therefore used all the contractions and colloquialisms I ordinarily use in conversation. A “talk” on the radio should, I think, be as like real talk as possible, and should not sound like an essay being read aloud.

Lewis himself explained: “In the printed versions I made a few additions to what I had said at the microphone, but otherwise left the text much as it had been. This broadcast differed from the published editions. You can read excerpts from the book here: …

This broadcast formed the basis of Chapter One of the book “Mere Christianity”.

A recreation of the original broadcast talk made by C.S.

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