Kenneth Keniston from "Alienation and the Decline of Utopia"

"Every age, too, has its characteristic balance between positive, educative, horatory, constructive, imperative, visionary, utopian myths, and negative, deterrent, cautionary, warning, direful, destructive and counter utopian myths. In some periods of Western History, images of violence, demonism, destructiveness, sorcery and witchcraft have prevailed; in others, myths of blessedness, justice, cooperation, and universal concordance with divine order have dominated. Other times, perhaps the happiest, have been able to include visions of both light and darkness in one mythic embrace: only in such times do we find a clear public articulation of the existence of and the links between the divine and the demonic."