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The Magician’s Twin: C. S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society is unavailable, but you can change that!

Beloved for his Narnian tales for children and his books of Christian apologetics for adults, best-selling author C. S. Lewis also was a prophetic critic of the growing power of scientism in modern society, the misguided effort to apply science to areas outside its proper bounds. In this wide-ranging book of essays, contemporary writers probe Lewis’ warnings about the dehumanizing impact of...

THE EARLY twentieth century represents a time in English-speaking culture in which the sciences were coming more and more into prominence, and beginning to drive technological developments, with manifest improvements in the lives of many people. In such a setting, the question naturally arises, “Why don’t we use ‘scientific’ approaches to improving human nature itself?” Such a prospect alarmed Lewis, because it
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