18 August 2023

Lewis

How true membership in a body differs from inclusion in a collective may be seen in the structure of a family. The grandfather, the parents, the grown-up son, the child, the dog and the cat are true members (in the organic sense) precisely because they are not members or units of a homogeneous class. They are not interchangeable.—Business of Heaven, p. 210.

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