A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

We lack rituals in this modern world.

For better or worse we're in an age of disbelief," Rico said, "An age of science and a need for proof.

Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.