1910?: George Robert Stow Mead, Some Mystical Adventures, page 11 (1993 republication; Kessinger Publishing; →ISBN, 9781564593597)
Is our salvation to be dependent upon machines; are we to become dei ex machinis ?
1954, Meanjin Quarterly, University of Melbourne, page 211:
The dei ex machinis and the bug-eyed monsters are both products of man’s imagination — extensions and projections of his own desires, fears and hopes about himself, often revealing more about the sorts of things he believes in — or unconsciously wants to believe in — than he himself recognises.
2007, Susan Miller, Trust in Texts: A Different History of Rhetoric, Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 90, →ISBN:
Apparitions, marvelous coincidences, and various dei ex machinis endow these true-life fictions with spiritual qualities, useful as new secular verification that God’s plan is […]
