Berlin makes the following observation on de Maistre:
Only the use of the faculty of reason aided by the growth of knowledge founded on sense perception—not mystical inner light or uncritical acceptance of tradition, dogmatic rules, or the voice of supernatural authority, whether vouchsafed by direct revelation or recorded in sacred texts—only that would provide final answers to the great problems that had occupied men since the beginning of history.
Even if this holds true of the civilization in question, can this encompass the dilemma of societies caught at an earlier point, where this thesis cannot be taken for granted?
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