Philosophical ideals in fictional form One way to show the fallacy of any flawed philosophy or theory is to take it to its logical extreme. That is what Wright and his son, Gilbert, do in this book. Would we really want to live in a world where scientific progress was the only value? In The Devil's Highway we see Wright's vision of a totally scientific world, where progress is all that matters. Today we don't need this kind of imaginative picture. We have seen ethnic cleansings, gas chambers, labor camps, genocides, politically motivated sterilizations, and medical experiments on expendable people. Wright saw it before it happened with the Nazis and Communists later on.