That Hideous Strength and The Abolition of Man
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The Conscience of Final Participation
Mark O'Mara: Merlin is the last vestige of an old order in which matter and spirit were from our modern point of view confused. For him, every operation on nature is a kind of personal contact like coaxing a child or stroking one's horse. After him came the modern man to whom nature is something dead, a machine to be worked and taken to bits if it won't work the way he pleases. He says we're being told today that anything that's wrong with us, evenWe are seen as people who need remedial treatment rather than cure. We should be focused on how to grow the garden and build the community, not about remediating illness
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