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'O gods, rob not the earth of the dim hush that hangs round all Your temples, bereave not all the world of old romance, take not the glamour from the moonlight nor tear the wonder out of the white mists in every land; for, O ye gods of the childhood of the world, when You have left the earth you shall have taken the mystery from the sea and all its glory from antiquity, and You shall have wrenched out hope from the dim future. . . .'
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This is just part of an excellent paragraph from the story
The Relenting of Sarnidac, this being just one of the stories from
Time and Gods by Lord Dunsany. A number of excellent works by him available here at Mobile Read, thanks much Dr. Drib, et al.
Anyway don't get me wrong the progression of knowledge and science has been a wonderful thing for mankind. And those who still believe in all this religious nonsense, including denying the reality of evolution, in an otherwise literate and educated country are in my opinion a joke. Still the point of the passage in that book I understand. The human mind evolved in African savannah at a time when even the cycle of night and day were a mystery. There seems to be a hardwired need in our brains for belief in some unknowable, some power beyond ourselves.