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Modernity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠plagued by a failure to realize that increasing knowledge is not merely about discovering new things, but involves also corresponding development of morality.

Modernity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠grounded in the recognition that man is no longer connected intimately with nature, and gone with that is the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection had supplied as thunder is no longer the voice of an angry God. . . No river contains a spirit. . . No snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear.

Modernity (n.) thinks ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠itself superior to its own psychology; its moralistic and hygienic temper must always know whether a thing is harmful or useful, right or wrong.

Modernity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the Gothic vertical cut across by the horizontal — voyages and conquest of nature carrying the West further and further from Christ.

Modernity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the line from the heresies of the year 1000 through alchemy, Protestantism and science to the evaporation of Christianity under rationalism and "realism."