The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human – human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.


"The Bull-Fight" from Essays from Epilogue (Manchester: Carcanet, 2001)

Laura Riding Quotes

The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from ...

The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from ...

The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from ...

The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from ...