The Way

"Whence comes the Innovator's authority to pick and choose?" (43).

"The rebellion of new ideaologies against the Tao is a rebellion of branches against the tree; if the rebels could succeed, they would find that they had destroyed themselves" (44).

The argument that Lewis makes throughout this chapter is about instinct and whether it is real or has any control over us. It sounds a lot like the argument he makes for conscience in that what makes you obey it can not be the instinct itself but something else, like a prejudgement. He is saying that people can not pick and choose values, like out of the Tao, because they are all together, and to pick and choose would either make them all valid or all wrong. He says that to debunk or reject traditional values would reject all values.