Aldous HuxleyYou never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion.. .. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
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C. S. Lewis is known for his ideas on how religion and magic can be used to bring happiness into this world. In the quote above, he states that only man behaves with such gratuitous folly.
Religion and magic can be used to bring about happiness in this world, but they only work on humans. He states that animals cannot be fooled by magic and do not go through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of religion and magic. Instead, they behave intelligently enough to stay away from such foolishness.
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