 He admits that the idea of objective knowledge as the only source of truth may seem austere and unattractive in that it does not provide an explanation that will calm the anxiety of man; “It wrote an end to the ancient animist covenant between man and nature, leaving nothing in place of that precious bond but an anxious quest in a frozen universe of solitude” (Monod, 170).The author points to what he sees as the acceptance of objective science in practice but not in spirit.He says that the important message of science is that in the defining of a new source of truth which demands revision of ethical premises and a total break with the animist tradition.