Which C.S. Lewis book contains the essay “Men Without Chests”?

The essay “Men Without Chests” appears in C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man.

The Abolition of Man began as a series of three lectures delivered at the University of Durham in 1943. Lewis published them as a short book in 1943. The opening lecture, “Men Without Chests,” criticizes an approach to education that Lewis believed reduced value judgments to expressions of subjective feeling.

The second lecture, “The Way,” defends the existence of a shared moral order, which Lewis calls the Tao. The final lecture, “The Abolition of Man,” considers how attempts to control nature could ultimately transform or diminish humanity itself. Together, the essays address education, morality, scientific power, and the meaning of human nature.

The title essay is often remembered as the source of the book’s name, but “Men Without Chests” is the first essay, not a separate publication. The book is also distinct from Lewis’s more directly autobiographical Surprised by Joy and from his radio-derived Mere Christianity.