Continuing from the previous title, Radical Progress (2003), this project is not only more comprehensively exacting than that one - and indeed than all of the earlier works in John O'Loughlin's not-inconsiderable oeuvre - in relation to the various ideological permutations of both state and church, politics and religion, but more logically insightful as to the diametrically opposite ways in which what has been termed 'world overcoming' operates, whether from a secular or an ecclesiastic point of view, to the end of maintaining either the alpha ideal of somatic freedom from the standpoint of a female hegemony or the omega ideal of psychic freedom from the standpoint of a male hegemony, neither of which kinds of ideal, respectively criminal or, more correctly, evil] and graceful, are or ever can be compatible, and therefore necessitate and invariably result in contrary types of society which, for obvious reasons, rarely if ever 'see eye to eye', but remain at gender loggerheads with each other for as long as 'the world' persists.