Lewis and Chesterton

I am away from the church this week on vacation; thus no church news. (The postings related to the hurricane and relief efforts are actually from David Apple.) Here are selections from the books I've been reading this week.

From C. S. Lewis' Prince Caspian:
"Aslan," said Lucy, "you're bigger."
"That is because you are older, little one," answered he.
"Not because you are?"
"I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger."

From G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man:
Art is the signature of man.... When all is said, the man fact that the record of the reindeer men attests, along with all other records, is that the reindeer man could draw and the reindeer could not.... Monkeys did not begin pictures and men finish them; Pithecanthropus did not draw a reindeer badly and Homo Sapiens draw it well. The higher animals did not draw better and better portraits; the dog did not paint better in his best period than in his early bad manner as a jackal; the wild horse was not an Impressionist and the race-horse a Post-Impressionist. All we can say of this notion of reproducing things in shadow or representative shape is that it exists nowhere in nature except in man; and that we cannot even talk about it without treating man as something separate from nature. In other words, every sane sort of history must begin with man as man, a thing standing absolute and alone.