C.S. Lewis: The Abolition of Man

or Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools

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Back Cover of the out-of-print 1999 Harper/Font edition:

Earlier edition, probably Scribner.

“If someone were to come to me and say that, excepting the Bible, everyone on earth was going to be required to read one and the same book, and then ask what it should be, I would with no hesitation say The Abolition of Man. It is the most perfectly reasoned defence of Natural Law (Morality) I have ever seen, or believe to exist. If any book is able to save us from future excesses of folly and evil, it is this book.”  Walter Hooper

“No review can do justice to C.S. Lewis: his writing has a clarity and authority that are impossible to convey. He must be read.”  Church of England Newspaper

“It is a real triumph. There may be a piece of contemporary writing in which precision of thought, liveliness of expression and depth of meaning unite with the same felicity, but I have not come across it.”  Owen Barfield

Amazon.com Review:

“C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man purports to be a book specifically about public education, but its central concerns are broadly political, religious, and philosophical. In the best of the book’s three essays, ‘Men Without Chests’, Lewis trains his laser-sharp wit on a mid-century English high school text, considering the ramifications of teaching British students to believe in idle relativism, and to reject ‘the doctrine of objective value, the belief that certain attitudes are really true, and others really false, to the kind of thing the universe is and the kinds of things we are’. Lewis calls this doctrine the ‘Tao’, and he spends much of the book explaining why society needs a sense of objective values. The Abolition of Man speaks with astonishing freshness to contemporary debates about morality…”  Michael Joseph Gross

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