If you think about the 18th century, say, if you think about intellectual life before the late 19th century, anything you did, anything you thought about, whether it was the physical world, the human world, the natural world apart from the human world, or morality, anything you did would have been framed against the background of a set of assumptions that were religious, Christian assumptions.
Ja iedomājamies 18. gadsimtu, piemēram, ja iedomājamies intelektuālo dzīvi pirms 19. gadsimta beigām, viss, ko darīji, viss, par ko domāji, vienalga, vai tā bija fiziskā pasaule, cilvēka pasaule, dabas pasaule  bez cilvēka pasaules, vai morāle, viss, ko darīji, visu pielāgoja reliģisku pieņēmumu kopumam, kristiešu pieņēmumiem.