Interesting ideas about fear
From amazon book excerpt
I can't find a cut and paste quote of the passage, but a lot of what Eisley says strikes a current chord, I think.
A couple of bits I could get:
"We do not believe. We only fear. We fear those things which are about
us and of which we have no sure knowledge. . . ."
"Most of all we fear the secret misdoings of the heedless ones among ourselves."