In the preface to That Hideous Strength, Lewis states, “This is a ‘tall story‘ about devilry, though it has behind it a serious ‘point’ which I have tried to make in my Abolition of Man.” In The Abolition of Man, among many things, Lewis offered his thoughts to an audience from the University of Durham in February 1943 on education, the natural law tradition, and the necessity of moral oversight of the institution of science and its practitioners. Lewis considered That Hideous Strength to be a fictionalized version of the themes in his book of three lectures, The Abolition of Man. Lewis titled That Hideous Strength after a line in a poem by Sir David Lyndsay called “Ane Dialog” (1555) in which Lyndsay was describing the biblical Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9): “The shadow of that hideous strength, Six miles and more it is of length.”
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