The Abolition of Man

"We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."

The Abolition of Man is a social commentary on the ills which Lewis believes has been bred by the aspirations of modernity. Lewis' argument is accurate in that he considers much of modernity to have a destructive effect on man, otherwise an ability to "abolish" man.

This book was first delivered as a series of three lectures at the Riddell Memorial Lectures o...