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Updated: May 1, 2025
Throughout these four centuries the empire knew that religion disturbed economy, for even the cost of heathen incense affected the exchanges; but no one could afford to buy or construct a costly and complicated machine when he could hire an occult force at trifling expense. Fetish-power was cheap and satisfactory, down to a certain point.
The only occult power at man's disposal was fetish. Against it, no mechanical force could compete except within narrow limits. Outside of occult or fetish-power, the Roman world was incredibly poor. It knew but one productive energy resembling a modern machine the slave.
No doubt the Church did all it could to purify the process, but society was almost wholly pagan in its point of view, and was drawn to the Cross because, in its system of physics, the Cross had absorbed all the old occult or fetish-power. The symbol represented the sum of nature the Energy of modern science and society believed it to be as real as X-rays; perhaps it was!
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