de-essentializing

Updated: June 2, 2025

And the chief factors in de-essentializing it that is, in de-Catholicizing Europe have been the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Revolution, which for the ideal of an eternal, ultra-terrestrial life, have substituted the ideal of progress, of reason, of science, or, rather, of Science with the capital letter. And last of all, the dominant ideal of to-day, comes Culture.

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