insinuated into the scientists; indifference to it, and a concentration upon mere power, had been the result.”17 For Lewis, the threat here is quite real. Commenting on this book, which is so damning of modern science, Lewis later wrote, “ ‘scientists’ as such are not the target … what we are obviously up against throughout the story is not scientists but officials.”18 This is an important distinction for Lewis. Scientific planning is not necessarily evil, “but ‘Under modern conditions any effective