Attribution

If the universe is so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good creator? Men are fools, perhaps; but hardly so foolish as that. The direct inference from black to white, from evil flower to virtuous root, from senseless work to a workman infinitely wise, staggers belief. The spectacle of the universe as revealed by experience can never have been the ground of religion: it must always have been something in spite of which religion, acquired from a different source, was held.
~C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (1940)

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On this day:

1918 Lewis (age nineteen) is hospitalized with trench fever at Le Treport, France, for one month.