“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.