“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, 26.
That line: “We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst” deserves much thought as we look around today.
So true, I thought the same thing as I read the quote.