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The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one’s post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years” (1970: 266)

In a 1963 interview, Lewis was asked, “What do you think is going to happen in the next few years of history, Mr. Lewis?” Lewis replied, “I have no way of knowing. My primary field is the past. I travel with my back to the engine, and that makes it difficult when you try to steer.

Lewis " generally he saw himself as a man of the past"