This is a book about modern liberal society and its adversaries. It rediscovers and rehabilitates much maligned liberalism as the ideal system of. It rediscovers liberal modernity as a free, equal and just social system and time, exposing anti-liberal adversaries, especially conservatism, as ideologies and systems most inappropriate with and destructive of civilization. The book rediscovers liberal modernity as the master process and destination of Western civilization, and its adversaries as the ghosts of a dead past.