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"A man makes the forces of nature not simply into persons with whom he can associate as he would with his equals- that would not do justice to the overpowering impression which those forces make on him- but he gives them the character of a father. He turns them into gods, following in this, as I have tried to show, not only an infantile prototype but a phylogenetic one."