Absolute Absolution

The leading principle of the Utopian religion is the repudiation of the doctrine of original sin[p.325 →]

— H.G. Wells, A Modern Utopia (1905)

Everything in the modern world functions as if death did not exist. Nobody takes it into account, it is suppressed everywhere[p.63 →].

— Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)

Education is the modern world’s temporal religion[p.2 →]

— Bob Chase, president, National Education Association, NEA TODAY, April 1997