“you're a profoundly religious man, mr roark -- in your own way," a client tells the hero of the fountainhead. "i can see that in your buildings."



in (rand's) "introduction to the fountainhead," she complained that "religion's monopoly in the field of ethics has made it extremely difficult to communicate the emotional meaning and connotations of a rational view of life." she went on to discuss the central importance in her view of life what she calls "man worship": "a spirit embodying the emotions of reverence, exaltation, nobility, grandeiur -- not directed at some supernatural realm, but at its proper object: human potential."