In the readings of That Hideous Strength and The Abolition of Man, both authored by C.S. Lewis, there is a relation between the two because of them both having a focus on the idea that if one larger entity falls, everything else within falls too. In The Abolition of Man, within its section titled “The Way”,  it is stated that “if the Tao falls, all his own conceptions of value fall with it” meaning that if one larger idea is to fall apart and or dissipate, everything else that is somehow strung back to that larger idea fall apart and or dissipates as well (Lewis 20.) The idea is similar to a tree and its branches, if the tree were to fall, so would all of its branches. The branches would have no grounds for survival without the tree itself. A proof of this is found within chapter 16 of That Hideous Strength, where in this chapter, the organization known as N.I.C.E. is crumbling. The chapter goes on to tell how almost all of the important members of the group, wind up dead and ends with the character, Frost whom of which “…walked back into the Objective Room, poured out the petrol and threw a lighted match into the pile” being one of the last inner circle members to die that night (Lewis 333.) This pattern of death began with the death of the director of the group and continued throughout the rest of the inner circle. This is a prime example of what Lewis speaks about in his other writing, with how the head of the large entity fell, subsequently the rest of the organization fell along with it. In his other writing, Lewis regards this higher entity as to being the Tao, whereas in this case it is a person. In both cases, it is clear to see that when the larger and or more important figure to a group and or belief system falls, everything else attached to those systems or figures falls along with it.