D?dalus (= cunning artificer) was a sort of personified summary of mechanical skill. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Because rationality itself is a wilful exercise one hears Hymns to Reason and sees it personified as an extremely dignified goddess. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
In our modern languages they are named after the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, which from the remotest times were personified and worshiped. 李贝.西洋科学史.
But if that will is so weak and timid that a great evil like child labor persists to our shame we turn the responsibility over to the devil personified as a special interest. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.