but why does the high end of the current intellectucal ground, maybe not often, but do come to religion despite having knowledge far and far more developed and profound then of those the quote calls "midwits"? As long as there's dogmatic holes science can't (and probably won't) answer in the next centuries (as for example - the universe in its whole before the "Big Bang" and how there was something out of seamlessly nothing), our best bet will always be that the force we, perhaps, can't comprehend, is behind this
imho the quote missed the point of how religion, in the end, helped many geniuses throughtout the history pursue the grasping of "divine knowledge", like Copernicus (or any other Renaissance-era scientist), while simultaneously uniting the simple-minded people who built empires and, frankly, humanity itself.
Maybe it is i who misinterpreted the whole point, i don't care what mindset prehistoric humans had lol