Naturalist

See Naturalism. Miracles 5.9 "The Naturalists must not destroy all my reverence for conscience on Monday and expect to find me still venerating it on Tuesday." This phrasing reminds me of the sentence in The Abolition of Man which reads (last two sentence in Chapter I. Men Without Chests: "... We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful." Lewis expresses concern for the effect of Naturalism on the modern mind. "But the Naturalists have cured us of mistaking these feelings for insights into what we once called 'real value'. Now that I know that my impulse to serve posterity is just the same kind of thing as my fondness for cheese -- now that its transcendental pretensions have been exposed for a sham -- do you think I shall pay much attention to it?" -- of course this dismissive position is not well founded but it seems to be one of the core motivations of the Naturalists for taking the position that they do. Lewis himself noted this in "Surprised by Joy" -- once he came close to Christianity he was like a fox on the run. (See SBJ XIV Checkmate).