17 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
Break Nature's Locks to Reveal Truth
When human life lay groveling in all men's sight, crushed to the earth under the dead weight of superstition whose grim features loured menacingly upon mortals from the four quarters of the sky, a man of Greece was first to raise mortal eyes in defiance, first to stand erect and brave the challenge. Fables of the gods did not crush him, nor the lightning flash and the growling menace of the sky. Rather, they quickened his manhood, so that he, first of all men, longed to smash the const...Give up superstitious fears, Lucretius tells us, which oppress us and prompt us to do vile things.