"Whatever these men may be as Biblical Critics, I distrust them as critics. They seem to me to lack literary judgment, to be imperceptive about the very quality of the texts they are reading ..."
"These men ask me to believe they can read between the lines of the old texts; the evidence is their obvious inability to read (in any sense worth discussing) the lines themselves. They claim to see fern-seed and can't see an elephant ten yards away in broad daylight."
C. S. Lewis, Fern-seed and Elephants (Glasgow: Collins, 1975), 106, 111.
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