It happened about the time of the last of the religiously-inspired peasant revolts, and about the time when socialist ideologies began to claim the authority of scientific economics. Now, three hundred years later, the credibility of economics as a social science independent of history and the other social sciences is shaken, and we may be at another ideological turning point. I think that the direction ideology will turn will be toward a more comprehensive and more philosophical social science which appreciates the spiritual life, i.e. that life which transforms the will. The sacred texts serve social cohesion in ways that economics cannot. It really does not help to expand economics to include social choice theories which rationally calculate the public interest, unless there is also a public spirit which makes people care about the public interest.
Religion is part of a normal life.
La buena voluntad no sobra nunca. There is never a surplus of good will.