“Unless I read the evidence wrongly, the political and philosophic history of the West during the past 150 years can be understood as a series of attempts – more or less conscious, more or less systematic, more or less violent – to fill the central emptiness left by the erosion of theology.”
– George Steiner, Nostalgia for the Absolute (Toronto, 1974), p. 2
D. L. Dusenbury 