The Abolition of Man
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All Themes Education, Emotional Sentiment, and Ethics Objective Value, Human Virtue, and Societal Health Traditional Values vs. Innovation Nature, Science, and the Abolition of Man
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All Characters C. S. Lewis Gaius and Titius Orbilius
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All Symbols Men Without Chests
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The Abolition of Man

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C. S. Lewis
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Men Without Chests

In the first of the three lectures contained in The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis uses the idea of “Men Without Chests” to symbolize human beings who lack what Lewis sees as “right…

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