With respect to secularizing the law, I am still persuaded that, while it might be a historical question of the 16th century, it is indeed a philosophical question of the 19th century and, perhaps, beyond. The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben has translated these historical events to the modern philosophical discussion of the 21st century. In light of the general 'cultural mood' in the 19th century, I aligned Holmes with Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche as the three most well-documented critics of the onto-theological tradition tightly fastened to Western metaphysics since its beginning. Jacques Derrida groups these three intellectual giants together likewise.