"..(God is dead) is not primarily a theological utterance, but amounts to saying that nineteenth century civilization had lost its faith. But this remark was more to Nietzsche than the commonplace it has become, because Nietzsche insisted that the death of God counted-- not merely was God dead but there was no other principle of order to be believed in either; men were adrift and rootless in the universe, and at heart they knew it." (Alan Ryan in New Society) (10:3)

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