Sublime

apparatchik.

turn Homo sapiens into Homo deus.

In the years when I discovered the Abbé Vallet volume, there was a widespread conviction that one should write only out of a commitment to the present, in order to change the world. Now, after ten years or more, the man of letters (restored to his loftiest dignity) can happily write out of pure love of writing.

That would be the triumph of what might be called a Christianity without God.

é a liberdade e não mais a natureza que se torna o fundamento da moral.

immodestly

in the eighteenth century, when the humanist revolution

liberalism will collapse. What new religions or ideologies might fill the resulting vacuum and guide the subsequent evolution of our godlike descendants?