"Unless we believe in the hero, what is there To believe? Incisive what, the fellow Of what good. Devise. Make him of mud."

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So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.

— Thomas Carlyle