This is the third of three spaces in the run-up to my discussion with Chris Rufo about the corruption of America's institutions of education by the Left. Here I discuss the meaning of the phrase 'reluctant Modernism' regarding America (ie. the consequences of 'relativism' attendant upon the diffusion of Modern science in America, the limited premises of Modern science, the legacy of Pragmatism and Henry Adams's image and meaning of 'the Virgin and the Dynamo' (ie. faith versus reason)