"Throughout that part of the world where the vast majority of the earth's population live, facile announcementes"Ibid, p.5

"that 'God is Dead' had passed largely unnoticed. The experience of the people of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific had long confirmed htem in the view not only that human nature is deeply influenced by spiritual forces, but that its very identity is spiritual. Consequently, religion continued, as had always been the case, to function as the ultimate authority in life. These convictions, while not directly confronted by the ideological revolution taking place in the West, were effectively marginalized by it, insofar as interaction among peoples and nations was concerned. Having penetrated and captured all significant centres of power and information at the global level, dogmatic materialism ensured that no competing voices would retain the ability to challenge projects of world wide explotation. To the cultural damage already inflicted by two centuries of colonial rule was added an agonizing disjunction between the inner and outer experience of the masses affected, a condition invading virtually all aspects of life. ....." Ibid, p.5