an advocate of scientism, and a society based on his way of thinking, cannot help being totalitarian inasmuch as his conception of science – as exclusive of every other form of knowledge and, thus, of various aspects of reality that are declared to be either unknowable or non-existing – cannot be the object of any proof. Indeed, a scientistic thinker does not intend to elevate other forms of thought to a higher level (which is the attitude, for instance, of secular liberalism75 toward religion), but he simply “denies them.”
