Godless Honour and the Descent of Reason

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According to conventional thinking, the primary weapon in the quest for godless honour, as it were, is the sword of Reason. We’re living in the afterglow of the Age of Reason, when the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages, the Protestant Reformation, the Renaissance, the colonization of the Americas, and the rise of merchant capitalism fueled the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions in Europe.