Lucretius Quote

When the whole earth rocks under their feet and towns tumble with the shock or doubtfully threaten to fall, what wonder that mortal men abase themselves and make over to the gods in things here on earth high prerogatives and marvelous powers, sufficient to govern all things?

T. Lucreti Cari de rerum natura libri sex, Book V (p. 146), George Bell & Sons. 1903