Dehumanization

The danger of mechanized civilization, of an industrial and commercial society, is that it tends to degrade the distinctive nature of man by emphasizing speed, size, quantity, and the maximization of physical pleasure by applied technical power at the expense of more crucial human values. The catastrophically dehumanizing means by which the Industrial Revolution came into being was as apparent to Lewis as it had been to the great Victorian social critics before him.—Michael Aeschliman, The Restitution of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Case against Scientism, 79–80