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C. S. Lewis. Transposition and other Addresses
Transposition and other Addresses
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PREFACE
I. TRANSPOSITIONA sermon preached on Whit-Sunday in Mansfield College Chapel, Oxford
II. THE WEIGHT OF GLORYPreached originally as a sermon in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, on June 8, 1941: published in Theology, November, 1941, and by the S.P.C.K., 1942
III. MEMBERSHIPAn address to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius. (Reprinted from Sobornost’)
IV. LEARNING IN WAR-TIMEA sermon preached in the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford, Autumn, 1939
V. THE INNER RINGThe Memorial Oration at King’s College, the University of London, 1944
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C. S. Lewis
Published by Good Press, 2021
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I now make two comments on the instances of Transposition which are already before us:
(1) It is clear that in each case what is happening in the lower medium can be understood only if we know the higher medium. The instance where this knowledge is most commonly lacking is the musical one. The piano version means one thing to the musician who knows the original orchestral score and another thing to the man who hears it simply as a piano piece. But the second man would be at an even greater disadvantage if he had never heard any instrument but a piano and even doubted the existence of other instruments. Even more, we understand pictures only because we know and inhabit the three-dimensional world. If we can imagine a creature who perceived only two dimensions and yet could somehow be aware of the lines as he crawled over them on the paper, we shall easily see how impossible it would be for him to understand. At first he might be prepared to accept on authority our assurance that there was a world in three dimensions. But when we pointed to the lines on the paper and tried to explain, say, that “This is a road,” 15 would he not reply that the shape which we were asking him to accept as a revelation of our mysterious other world was the very same shape which, on our own showing, elsewhere meant nothing but a triangle. And soon, I think, he would say, “You keep on telling me of this other world and its unimaginable shapes which you call solid. But isn’t it very suspicious that all the shapes which you offer me as images or reflections of the solid ones turn out on inspection to be simply the old two-dimensional shapes of my own world as I have always known it? Is it not obvious that your vaunted other world, so far from being the archetype, is a dream which borrows all its elements from this one?”
