AoM-Abolition of Man

1.) "We shall have 'taken the thread of life out of the hand of Clotho' and be henceforth free to make our species whatever we wish it to be.[...]For the Power of Man to make himself what he pleases means, as we have seen, the power of some men to make other men what they please" (59).

2.) "You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.[...]If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see" (81).

In his last chapter, Lewis sums up his argument and explains the title of his book, The Abolition of Man. He states that eradicating a certain aspect of the next generation, as Lewis argues that Gaius and Titius do, with eventually be the destruction of mankind itself. This next generation of man will not be men anymore than a doll is human. They will be but false representations of humanity, devoid of true life and made of cheap metaphorical plastic. Man will no longer be an invividual entity, but a memory of its predecessors. He will be exactly how others wanted him to be, not his own being. In doing this, man will have robbed fate of its true job: weaving the future. Everything will be predetermined; everything will be known. Once we know everything, and once everything in the world can be explained, there will be nothing left to discover. There will be nothing left to "see" and thus man will be no more. Too much knowledge can be a gift as well as a curse: When you know everything there is to know, there is nothing more you can learn.