Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else.

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end!

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming

Someday our piecing together of knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas we shall either go mad or flee into the safety of a new dark age.