Tertullian

“ This, however, would be as foolish a ground for making gods as even the invention of the useful arts. And yet if the skilful men [6] of our own time be compared with these, how much more suitable would deification be to the later generation than to the former! For, tell me, have not all the extant inventions superseded antiquity, [7] whilst daily experience goes on adding to the new stock? Those, therefore, whom you regard as divine because of their arts, you are really injuring by your very arts, and challenging (their divinity) by means of rival attainments, which cannot be surpassed. ”

“ Chapter XVI.—Inventors of Useful Arts Unworthy of Deification. They Would Be the First to Acknowledge a Creator. The Arts Changeable from Time to Time, and Some Become Obsolete.
Well, but [1] certain men have discovered fruits and sundry necessaries of life, (and hence are worthy of deification) . ”