"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresistible tendency to religion; it is founded in our wants and passions, in the extent of our faculties, in the quality of mind itself. 's description of the untired soul darting from world to world, is a noble image of the restless longing of the mind after God and immortality. The stronger his sensibility, the more exalted his imagination, the more pious will every man be. And in this inherent and essential quality of our minds can we alone account for the various absurd and demonstrably false dogmas believed so honestly and zealously by some. Men run headlong into superstition in the same way as young boys and girls run into matrimony."
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Henry Crabb Robinson
(13 May 1775 – 5 February 1867) was an English writer, lawyer, scholar, journalist, and war correspondent for ' in the . He was one of the founding members of and of the . Robinson was famous during his lifetime for his literary friendships and for holding social breakfasts (similar to those of ) and gained posthumous fame as a diarist. In 1829 Robinson was elected a Fellow of the .
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