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Updated: October 3, 2026
And all others: star-worshippers, and fire, and wood, and water, and stone, and animal-worshippers had a touching sense of the immediate divine presence in nature. The Church came not to extinguish this sense but to explain and to subordinate it; to put God in the place of demons and hope instead of fear. The Church came not to destroy, but to purify, to aid and to assimilate.
I settled back into my place with a tightening of interest which made me forget its discomfort, for that these were the two star-worshippers I did not doubt. The distance was so great that their faces were the merest blurs; but I could see that one leaned heavily upon the arm of the other, as much, or so it seemed to me, for moral as for physical support.