‘No oyes la constante victoria,
en la carrera de los seres,
del tiempo, lento como el fuego,
seguro y espeso y herculeo,
acumulando su volumen
y anadiendo su triste hebra?’

‘Don’t you hear the constant victory
in the race of mankind
of time, slow as fire, certain, dense, and Herculean, gathering its strength
and adding its filament?’

Pablo Neruda

If we can and must be severe critics of Enlightenment, it is Enlightenment that has empowered us to be so.

Terry Eagleton