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The Abolition of Man
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Hard to start, easy to finish.
Lewis apparently presumed his audience would be fellow academics, or at least persons educated in a common curriculum - an assumption which makes the opening pages difficult to follow. I was about 10 the first time I read this, with no background in "the well-known story of Coleridge at the waterfall" or "dulce et decorum est" (and no Internet to quickly look them up with). But over the first dozen or so pages Lewis finds his stride, and as the book's discussion moves from abstract subjectivity to "trained emotions" to morality and eugenics, that characteristic Lewisian clarity carries the reader forward.
Abolition of Man is a short book. I've read it four times now, and I'm looking forward to reading it again.
Lewis apparently presumed his audience would be fellow academics, or at least persons educated in a common curriculum - an assumption which makes the opening pages difficult to follow. I was about 10 the first time I read this, with no background in "the well-known story of Coleridge at the waterfall" or "dulce et decorum est" (and no Internet to quickly look them up with). But over the first dozen or so pages Lewis finds his stride, and as the book's discussion moves from abstract subjectivity to "trained emotions" to morality and eugenics, that characteristic Lewisian clarity carries the reader forward.
Abolition of Man is a short book. I've read it four times now, and I'm looking forward to reading it again.
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November 12, 2008
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