All the superhuman things, whether good or bad, that former ages predicated on the daimonia, are reduced to "reasonable" proportions as though they were pure exaggeration, and everything seems to be in the best possible order.  … I put it to the enlightened rationalist: Has his rational reduction led to the beneficial control of matter and spirit?  It seems to me, frankly, that former ages did not exaggerate, that the spirit has not sloughed off its demonisms, and that mankind, because of its scientific and technological development has in increasing measure delivered itself over to the danger of possession.  True, the archetype of the spirit is capable of working for good as well as for evil, but it depends upon man's free – i.e. conscious – decision whether the good also will be perverted into something satanic. … Can we not understand that all the outward tinkerings and improvements do not touch man's inner nature, and that everything ultimately depends upon whether the man who wields the science and the technics is capable of responsibility or not?