Latterly there has been an increasing need for a new legitimator. The consequence was to change finally the form of the legitimating ideology of bourgeois society. No longer able to rely upon the myth of a deity. If anything, this new legitimator of the social order was more formidable than the one it replaced .
Science is the ultimate legitimator of bourgeois ideology.
Thus, universities serve as creators, propagators, and legitimators of the ideology of biological determinism. If biological determinism is a weapon in the struggle between classes, then the universities are weapons factories, and their teaching and research faculties are the engineers, designers, and production workers. No no, these trivial matters fade into insignificance beside the overriding need to legitimate bourgeois ideology. Even the acknowledgements give us fair warning of what to expect. Actually, I suppose there is something rather sweet about this, in a pass , sixtiesish sort of way.