“In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic
bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as
you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London
almost every year.’ In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the
novelty of our situation. This is the first point to be made: and the first
action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be
destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible
and human things - praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music,
bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a
game of darts - not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about
bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not
dominate our minds.” – C. S. Lewis
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