John Carpay: C.S. Lewis and ‘The Abolition of Man’

The more Canadians embrace natural law and practice traditional moral values, the harder it becomes for woke ideologues to seize power and impose tyranny.

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Rejecting the Tao will eventually result in tyranny, warned C.S. Lewis in his 1944 book “The Abolition of Man.” The Tao has been defined variously as the way, the road, the absolute principle underlying the universe, the code of behaviour that is in harmony with the natural order, and the sole source of all value judgments.