... the concrete situations of its existence as they are, shrouded not in superstition nor myth. To Enlightenment myth is anthropomorphism[]; it anticipates Feuerbach in viewing myth as nothing more than the projection of individuals' fears onto a fictitious sphere. By understanding nature, by analyzing and comprehending its movements, by recognizing that it is not propelled by mysterious forces beyond human comprehension, we are capable of banishing fear, thereby erecting the base which will allow for the future flourishing of truly free human faculties. Autonomy and freedom lay hidden in knowledge; by positing knowledge, by overcoming superstition, we can come to govern a now disenchanted nature, a nature no longer conceived of as a tyrannical embodiment of opposing mystical forces which exist only to repress us.[] The individual imagines that she is free from fear when there is nothing left to know; nothing can remain outside of human consciousness, for externality ...

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