'When human life lay grovelling in all men's sight, crushed to the earth under the dead weight of superstition whose grim features loured menacingly upon mortals from the quarters of the sky, a man of Greece Epicurus was first to raise mortal eyes in defiance, first to stand erect Human Dignity and brave the challenge. Fables of the gods did not crush him, nor the lightning flash and the growling menace of the sky. '...'. Therefore superstition in its turn lies crushed beneath his feet, and we by his triumph are lifted level with the skies.' (Lucretius)
The Master read, and he saw that it was good. [26]