Edited sentence: It was the philosophical inadequacies of this "constituent" that Kathleen Nott had exposed in The Emperor's New Clothes....Writing on the occasion of Nott's death, former National Secular Society General Secretary Colin McCall commented that,.You need to realise the literary situation in post-war Britain to appreciate the importance of Kathleen Nott... This was a time when T S Eliot reigned supreme, not only as poet, but as critic; when Graham Greene, C S Lewis and Dorothy L Sayers were, in their different ways, spreading dogmatic Christian orthodoxy; and when the Times Literary Supplement (January 22 1954) said the acceptance of authority in matters of religious belief "is now once more an important constituent in European letters"