“Things are in the saddle,” he also wrote, “and ride mankind.” And again, “A terrible machine has possessed itself of the ground, the air, and the men and women, and hardly even thought is free.”37 Second things suffer, as Lewis was fond of repeating, when put first. Science is a good servant but a bad master, a good method for investigating and manipulating the material world, but no method at all for deciding what to do with the knowledge and power acquired thereby. Nevertheless, with the industrial