"To make yn thing very terrible, obscurity seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extend of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. Every one will be sensible of this, who considers how greatly night adds to our dread, in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds, which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings."
(E.Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful)
