The Abolition of Man
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The Abolition of Man is a 1943 book by C. S. Lewis. It is subtitled "Reflections on education with special reference to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools," but it actually uses that as a starting point for a defense of objective value and natural law, and a warning of the consequences of doing away with or "debunking" those things. It defends science as something worth pursuing but criticizes using it to debunk values —the value of science itself being among them—, or defining it to exclude such values.
The book maintained, among other things, that there are certain acts that are universally considered evil, such as rape and murder.
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