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After 1500, when this attraction began to decline, philosophers fell back on some vis a tergo instinct of danger from behind, like Darwin's survival of the fittest; and one of the greatest minds, between Descartes and Newton Pascal saw the master-motor of man in ennui, which was also scientific: "I have often said that all the troubles of man come from his not knowing how to sit still."
It is an illusion which may be compared to that of the fly in the fable, which, lighting on the shaft of a heavy wagon, applauded itself as driver of the vehicle which carried it. Man who believes himself free, is a fly who believes himself the master-motor in the machine of the universe, while he himself, without his own volition, is carried on by it.
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