C.S. Lewis’s trailblazing three-chapter essay, “The Abolition of Man,” uses the characters Gaius and Titius to skewer the moral relativists of his day. His scathing critique unmasks their manifesto on morality as no more than a canon of convenience.
Following his takedown of propagandist “Educators” and their “Green Book” in his first chapter, and moral relativist “Innovators” in his second chapter, Lewis’s final chapter tears into “Conditioners.” By that, he means men, or humans, who are supposedly the technological masters of their destiny.
