“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”

— Clive Staples Lewis , book The Abolition of Man

The Abolition of Man (1943)

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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963

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