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Against liberalism's vaunted pragmatism, the Dutch recalled Kuyper's presuppositional psychology: all action grew out of conviction, and so the Modernist bromide "Deeds, not creeds" was at once both foolish and duplicitous, being itself an article of faith. In fact, all of Modernism's labors evinced a creed, unwritten but fully as real as that of orthodoxy. 129