Source: The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (ID580)
Author: Becker, Carl (ID280)
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1700-01-01 - 1799-12-31
If mysterious things are useful, people are content not understanding them
Mindful: So long as we can make efficient use of things, we feel no irresistable need to understand them.
Critic: No doubt it is for this reason chiefly that the modern mind can be so wonderfully at ease in a mysterious universe.
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