C.S Lewis on Monarchy

Another bit of wisdom from another favourite author of mine. J.R.R Tolkien always regretted that he was unable to bring his dear friend, Lewis, all the way home to Rome when Lewis became a Christian. So, whilst not a Catholic, Lewis still had many good things to say, both in his fiction (children's and adult) and his non-fiction.

Clive Staples 'Jack' Lewis

'Monarchy can easily be ‘debunked;' but watch the faces, mark the accents of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.'