antiphonary

Updated: May 28, 2025

Kindling thought and imagination at once, the prospect draws from him cries of joy, a kind of religious joy, as in some new "canticle of the creatures," a new monkish hymnal or antiphonary. "Nature" becomes for him a sacred term. "Conform thyself to Nature" with what sincerity, what enthusiasm, what religious fervour, he enounces the precept to others, to himself!

Walter Pater - Giordano Bruno