…a web of naked fancies, which can never find the semblance of support from even the most superficial observation of facts: (and) he who looks on the world with

…a web of naked fancies, which can never find the semblance of support from even the most superficial observation of facts: (and) he who looks on the world with the eye of reverence must turn aside from this... as the result of an incurable delusion, whose sole effort is to detract from the dignity of nature. is anything more "unfortunately human" than this statement, right here? Both in its creative wording and in its cocksure unwavering wrongness