The anti-traditional spirit showed itself at once by the proclaiming of free examination, or, in other words, the absence – in the doctrinal order – of any principle higher than individual opinions. The inevitable result was intellectual anarchy: hence the indefinite multiplicity of religious and pseudo-religious sects, philosophic systems aiming above all at originality, and scientific theories as pretentious as they are ephemeral; in short, unbelievable chaos which is, however, dominated by a certain unity, there being beyond doubt a specifically modern outlook which is the source of it all—though this unity is altogether negative, since it is nothing more or less than an absence of principle, expressed by that indifference with regard to truth and error which ever since the 19th century has been called tolerance. —René Guénon
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