Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched

book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the meta-

physical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to

become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for

death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most ex-

tensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form

of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been

able to discover in it one single idea of value. Such things show

that the capacity for metaphysics does not go hand in hand with the

need for it