Larson: "Atomism engulfing the West..Bruno, Bacon, Galileo, Gassendi, Descartes..Luther..denied the minds ability to grasp universals & the substantial forms of real things...substantive is only subjective, and that what is truly substantive are the reductive formulations, particles, or waves of scientific analysis is to destroy the reliability and objectivity of all of man’s perception and knowledge..If God created man to see delusions, then the ultimate delusion must be the trustworthiness of God Himself and His Revelation..Every child in the public educational system of this country is taught a reductive scientism which produces in them a state of epistemological schizophrenia..[that] destroyed..Christian civilization.. murders of millions of the unborn every year, wholesale pornography, child-abuse (and yes, priestly pedophilia), rampant homosexuality..virtual total loss of all public morality, and an endless list of other evils..logical fruit of a worldwide scientific "ambience" which reduces all of creation and all human beings and their activities to blind material forces..was the genius of Aristotle and St. Thomas to see that this is not the case"
If Jeffery Kalb's music book thesis is correct it destroys the Descartes/Bacon "Enlightenment" presumptions of modernity. You see the big picture in my opinion which is almost impossible to find even with smart guys like Feser and McInerney: See all 2 images Music and Measurement: On the Eidetic Principles of Harmony and Motion Paperback – June 11, 2019 by Jeffrey C Kalb Jr. (Author) See all formats and editions Paperback $5.63 1 New from $5.63 The modern world is made in the image of algebra and the infinitesimal calculus that is grounded in it. But are the philosophical presuppositions of these mathematical disciplines even coherent? Mr. Kalb maintains that they are not, but that algebra is in fact a confused doctrine of music. Building upon the work of Jacob Klein, he first critiques the modern concept of number, which he shows to have been confused with quantity. He then proceeds to develop a genuine theory of quantity and measurement upon new fo...