If you think about the 18th century, say, if you think about intellectual life before the late 19th century, anything you did, anything you thought about, whether it was the physical world, the human world, the natural world apart from the human world, or morality, anything you did would have been framed against the background of a set of assumptions that were religious, Christian assumptions.
Dacă te gândești la secolul XVIII, să zicem, la viața intelectuală dinainte de sfârșitul secolului XIX, tot ce făceai, tot ce gândeai, fie că era vorba de lumea fizică, cea umană, lumea naturală, exceptând-o pe cea umană sau moralitate, tot ce făceai se sprijinea pe cadrul unui set de supoziții religioase, creștine.