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The Restitution of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism is unavailable, but you can change that!

A trained philosopher and intellectual historian as well as a writer of genius, C. S. Lewis was one of the most lucid, profound, and eloquent critics of reductive scientific materialism. The Restitution of Man examines the conflict between scientific materialism and the classical Christian philosophical tradition as it has taken place since the seventeenth century. It examines Lewis’ role as...

“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
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