Christ Jesus, too, came onto the scene against the background of large scale nation building projects under the reign of Herod the Great, for which, evidently a large scale infrastructure development was a corresponding necessity.  Mary Baker Eddy, likewise, grew up in an era of pioneering development efforts in education, scientific pursuits, and the physical development of the nation in which she lived.

The advanced processes of scientific / technological development cannot take place without a mental infrastructure of applied reason that reflects itself in technologies as well as in cultural optimism.  This background stands in total contrast to the oligarchy's highly promoted, but potentially deadly, mythology of post-industrialism.

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