We would like to think, as we are citizens of the most modern age, that we are free at last of the kind of foolish superstition which so infected previous times. We would like to feel, not simply that we have freed ourselves of past myths in particular (discarding such obvious implausibilities as witches and wizards and goblins), but that we have moved beyond mythology and superstition in general.
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