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“They saw the end coming, he thought, looking down the file of awful figures. But they were dead wrong about the reasons why. They assumed only gods had the power to wreak such havoc on their world, but people caused the devastation here.
Alex felt compassion for the ancient Pasquans—but a superior sort nevertheless. In blaming gods, they had conveniently diverted censure from the real culprit. The designer of weapons. The feller of trees. The destroyer. Man himself.”
Part VII (p. 366)
Earth (1990)
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“He never had a doubt that such gods were;
He looked within, and saw them mirrored there.”
The Legend of Jubal (1869)
Context: When Cain was driven from Jehovah's land
He wandered eastward, seeking some far strand
Ruled by kind gods who asked no offerings
Save pure field-fruits, as aromatic things,
To feed the subtler sense of frames divine
That lived on fragrance for their food and [wine]]:
Wild joyous gods, who winked at faults and folly,
And could be pitiful and melancholy.
He never had a doubt that such gods were;
He looked within, and saw them mirrored there.
Old and New http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21395/Old_and_New
From the poems written in English
Source: 1840s, Philosophical Fragments (1844), p. 76
"The Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Recovering Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud"
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Spinoza's Critique of Religion (1965)