The Man Who Pulled Down the Sky by John Barnes. - Isaac Asimov

Characterized by strong faith reactions. Beliefs can't be shaken short of a major shock, in which case, a fairly complete mental disruption results. Mild cases — hysteria, morbid sense of insecurity. Advanced cases — madness and suicide.

Dar eu ce gândesc?
- Că și dacă pot citi ce e-n mintea omului nu-nseamnă că trebuie să spun cu voce tare ceea ce văd.

Excellence, he is known as the Mule. He is spoken of little, in a factual sense, but I have gathered the scraps and fragments of knowledge and winnowed out the most probable of them. He is apparently a man of neither birth nor standing. His father, unknown. His mother, dead in childbirth. His upbringing, that of a vagabond. His education, that of the tramp worlds, and the backwash alleys of space. He has no name other than that of the Mule, a name reportedly applied by himself to himself, and signifying, by popular explanation, his immense physical strength, and stubbornness of purpose.