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Andrew MacPhee is the resident skeptic of the society of Logres that forms in the Manor. He does not believe in magic or mysticism, and he often demands that his fellow residents of Ransom’s Manor justify themselves with logic and evidence. MacPhee values pure objectivity in a way similar to the N.I.C.E., but he recognizes that the N.I.C.E. is a force of evil and agrees that it must be destroyed. Despite their differing worldviews, MacPhee is a close friend of Ransom’s.
Andrew MacPhee Quotes in That Hideous Strength
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Chapter 12
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“I think MacPhee is introducing into animal life a distinction that doesn’t exist there, and then trying to determine on which side of that distinction the feelings of Pinch and Bultitude fall. You’ve got to become human before the physical cravings are distinguishable from affections––just as you have to become spiritual before affections are distinguishable from charity. What is going on in the cat and the bear isn’t one or other of these two things: it is a single undifferentiated thing in which you can find the germ of what we call friendship and of what we call physical need. But it isn’t either at that level. It is one of Barfield’s ‘ancient unities.’”
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Andrew MacPhee Quotes in That Hideous Strength
The That Hideous Strength quotes below are all either spoken by Andrew MacPhee or refer to Andrew MacPhee. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 12
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“I think MacPhee is introducing into animal life a distinction that doesn’t exist there, and then trying to determine on which side of that distinction the feelings of Pinch and Bultitude fall. You’ve got to become human before the physical cravings are distinguishable from affections––just as you have to become spiritual before affections are distinguishable from charity. What is going on in the cat and the bear isn’t one or other of these two things: it is a single undifferentiated thing in which you can find the germ of what we call friendship and of what we call physical need. But it isn’t either at that level. It is one of Barfield’s ‘ancient unities.’”
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