" In only one sense have man's powers become godlike: he has fabricated a symbolic universe of meaning that reveals his original nature and his slow cultural emergence; and up to a point this enables him to transcend in thought his many creaturely limitations. All his daily activities, feeding, working, mating, are necessary and therefore important: but only to the extent that they vivify his conscious participation in the creative process-that process which every religion recognizes as both immanent and transcendent and calls divine. "
― Lewis Mumford , Technics and Human Development (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 1)