William Makepeace Thackeray wrote ‘Vanity Fair’ (1847-8). Another book by Trollope, ‘The Way We Live Now’ (1875), deals with gambling. ( 9:25) Anthony Trollope wrote the Chronicles of Barsetshire of which ‘Framley Parsonage’ (1861) deals with ambition, and ‘Doctor Thorne’ (1858) with snobbery. ( 9:20) Lewis: “In the nineteenth century some people thought that monogamous family life would automatically make them holy and happy the savage anti-domestic literature of modern times – the Samuel Butlers, the Gosses, the Shaws – delivered the answer…The ‘debunkers’ may have been wrong about principles and may have forgotten the maxim abusus non tollit usum : but in both cases they were pretty right about matters of fact ” (Lewis essay, ‘The Sermon and the Lunch’). When we call a man ‘brutal’ we usually mean that he commits cruelties impossible to most real brutes they’re not clever enough” (‘The Four Loves’, Chapter 3).

( 1:55) “When we blame a man for being ‘a mere animal’, we mean not that he displays animal characteristics (we all do), but that he displays these, and only these, on occasions where the specifically human was demanded. This was later turned into a larger book with more detail (with quite different examples), which you can find here: … You can purchase Lewis’ original radio broadcasts here: … You can find my transcript of this talk here, as it is not available on the web for some reason: … The second talk begins at 11:00, if you need smaller, bite-sized pieces.

I believe the first two talks addressed ‘Storge’. Originally ‘The Four Loves’ series was recorded by Lewis in London in 1957, prepared as 10 talks to air on the ‘Protestant Hour’ on American radio. This is an illustration of C.S Lewis’ talk about the first of the four loves – ‘Storge’ or ‘Affection’.

The 4 loves by cs lewis