Liberal philosophy rejected this requirement of human self-limitation. It displaced first the idea of a natural order to which humanity is subject and later the notion of human nature itself. Liberalism inaugurated a transformation in the natural and human sciences and humanity’s relationship to the natural world.
Since the "limitation" was itself an assertion that denied human nature — evolving under conditions of scarcity hardly left humans "in harmony" with capricious nature — the removal of that implausible limit would have "inaugurated" anything at all, much less something revolutionary.
