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>We take for granted the traditional conception of man as a rational being, in society and under God: the Christian tradition and a secular heritage, which is simply there like the air we breathe. This functions as an almost unnoticed resource, and as a standard of commonsense, as an adult view of existence, in comparison with which the utopian or vitalist notions tend to show up as rather childish and wilful—looking suspiciously like cases of arrested adolescence—the more purely and unmitigatedly they are presented.