From The Cult of Alien Gods

  "The modern historian Jacques Barzun recognized why scientism as a major theme, and major flaw, in Western civilization, and he provided the clearest explanation of why it produced a profound disappointment and backlash like the one evident in horror tales:

The clue to the fallacy of scientism is this; geometry (in all senses of the word) is an abstraction from experience; it could not live without the work of the human mind on what it encounters in the world. Hence the realm of abstraction, useful and far from unreal, is thin and bare and poorer than the world it is drawn from. It is therefore an idle dream to think of someday getting along without direct dealings with what abstraction leaves untouched. "

  "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear," Lovecraft began his essay," and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."

Jason Colavito