"A blind force can't have been the creator of all. It's unthinkable."
Any theory /their/ brains find "unthinkable" cannot be true.

(This is not to argue that it really is a blind force--or the opposite.
It is merely an instance of how little impartial they are.)


A second typical weakness of this race will come from their fears.
They are not either self-sufficing or gallant enough to travel great
roads without cringing,--clear-eyed, unafraid. They are finely made,
but not nobly made,--in that sense. They will therefore have a too
urgent need of religion. Few primates have the courage to face--
alone--the still inner mysteries: Infinity, Space and Time. They
will think it too terrible, they will feel it would turn them to
water, to live through unearthly moments of vision without creeds
or beliefs. So they'll get beliefs first. Ah, poor creatures! The
cart before the horse! Ah, the blasphemy (pitiful!) of their seeking
high spiritual temples, with god-maps or bibles about them, made
below in advance! Think of their entering into the presence of
Truth, declaring so loudly and boldly they know her already, yet
far from willing to stand or fall by her flames--to rise like a
phoenix or die as an honorable cinder!--but creeping in, clad in
their queer blindfolded beliefs, designed to shield them from her
stern, bright tests! Think of Truth sadly--or merrily--eyeing
such worms!



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