Are there not people comparable to those discribed below, who, instead
of seeking the substance of religion, are content with the mere breath
of theology; and others who, instead of seeing and facing the world’s
evils, “take out their eyes” whenever anything disagreeable happens
along?
Lucian says the people on the moon lived on frogs that they
cooked over a fire, but that, instead of eating the flesh, they
simply breathed in the smell that came from the cooking; and
that they had a custom of taking their eyes out of their heads
to save them from seeing anything that might displease them.
(1117)
See CARELESSNESS, COST OF; MIRACLES.