We are only seeking Man. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We dont know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we cant accept it for what it is. We are seaching for an ideal image of our own world: we go in quest of a planet, of a civilisation superior to our own but developed on the basis of a prototype of our primeval past. At the same time, there is something inside us which we dont like to face up to, from which we try to protect ourselves, but which nevertheless remains, since we dont leave Earth in a state of primal innocence. We arrive here as we are in reality, and when the page is turned and that reality is revealed to us — that part of our reality which we would prefer to pass over in silence — then we dont like it any more.Ch. 6: The Little Apocrypha, p. 72

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