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In this quote, Ransom tries to help his friend Lewis understand the nature of the current interplanetary warfare. Lewis, who is the more skeptical of the two men, has just argued that the Bible’s reference to the struggle against “principalities and powers” refers to an internal, moral struggle—it’s not about ordinary people encountering literal dark forces. Ransom laughs at this idea. In turn, he argues that just because the struggle has primarily been a moral one throughout history doesn’t mean that this will always be the case—after millennia of captivity under the control of the Dark Eldila, he believes, the…