And secondly: observe the difference between your attitude
to illusions and mine. You have to defend the religious illusion
with all your might. If it becomes discredited-and indeed the
threat to it is great enough-then your world collapses. There
is nothing left for you but to despair of everything, of civilization
and the future of mankind. From that bondage I am, we are,
free. Since we are prepared to renounce a good part of our
infantile wishes, we can bear it if a few of our expectations tum
out to be illusions