Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice. - Will Durant

it was fear that first made the gods”25 — fear of hidden forces in the earth, rivers, oceans, trees, winds, and sky. Religion became the propitiatory worship of these forces through offerings, sacrifice, incantation, and prayer.

Here and everywhere is the struggle for existence, life inextricably enmeshed with war. All life living at the expense of life, every organism eating other organisms forever.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.