this reminded me of an incident in 1948 involving c.s. lewis and a catholic convert. lewis was a president of the socraticic club who met every monday evening and whose purpose was to discuss the intellectual difficulties connected with religion and with christianity in particular. lewis begins -- quote -- "in any fairly large and talkative community such as a university, and i would add such as the senate, there is always a danger that those who think alike should gravitate together into coteries where they will encounter opposition only in the emmask lated form of rumor. the absent are so easily refuted, complacent, dogmatism thrives and differences of opinion are 'em bit -- many embittered by group hostility. in ans come had a complicated critique having to do with irrational and nonrational factors and belief formation. the results of the debate which lewis thought that he lost was revisions to his own book. anscomb while not convinced by the changes lewis made did say -- quote -- "the fact that lewis rewrote his chapter and rewrote it now that it has these new qua