I have just finished reading The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis (thankfully I had a 2 hour plane flight yesterday on which my kids slept). I have only read 3 or 4 of Lewis' books. This is probably the deepest. I have yet to form a complete opinion on what he says. So far I would say that I agree with him. I find his metaphor of "men without chests" to be amazing. I have never heard a more powerful description of modern man than this. I agree that all value comes from a single source, what he calls the Tao. I would go futher and say that the source of this Tao is God. I do not understand why he doesn't take this step. It may be that he is not attempting to turn men to Christ in this book. Rather, he is attempting to show the existience and value of universal values. This he does quite effectively. He makes a strong point by evidencing that most every "religion" upholds the same basic values. There does seem to be something to this. One of his most striking statements is that Man's conquest of Nature is actually Nature's conquest of Man. This is profound. He says later that to see through everything is to see nothing.
I hope to ponder this book much more. I wonder if anyone else has read the book and has some thoughts on it?
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