ABSTRACT

Acts, 17, 22 3 O ye unbelievers, I serve not what ye serve, and ye are not servers of what I

serve.

Koran 109, 1-3 4 There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.

Francis Bacon, Essays, ‘Of Superstition’ (1625) 5 Opposing one species of superstition to another, set them a quarrelling;

while we ourselves, during their fury and contention, happily make our escape into the calm, though obscure, regions of philosophy.