real ditcher,
| ploughman, or farmer's boy, was the shadow.
| Though he had never noticed it himself,
| he had a great reluctance, in his work,
| ever to use such words as &quot;man&quot; or &quot;woman&quot;.
| He preferred to write about &quot;vocational groups&quot;,
| &quot;elements&quot;, &quot;classes&quot;, and &quot;populations&quot;:  for, in
| his own way, he believed as firmly as any mystic in
| the superior reality of the things that are not seen.
|
| C.S. Lewis, 'That Hideous Strength', 1943

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