Atdtda[4]: 98.18 It could have been a religion

[Monte Davis]

> Or, in this paragraph we see echoes of 19th century 
> Posivitism, and an 
> early version of a 20th century attitude where science may become a 
> believe in science.

If I understand you, the latter is what I call scientism, more or less the
way Eddins uses the term in "Orphic Contra Gnostic": the Pointsman-Pokler
perversion, valorizing science as a closed system instead of an open,
self-challenging and self-correcting one. To have Kit poised on the edge of
it is in keeping with the sharp edges of the bargain coming up.