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I hear in the temples the footsteps of the departing gods Di quibus imperium hoc steterat; That which convinced the master minds of antiquity and many in later ages is still convincing, if it be attended to; the old tradition is yet unbroken; therefore, because I was bred in this faith, I will try to set forth anew in the phrases of our time the eternal ground of reason on which idealism rests.
Effugerant adytis templisque relictis Di quibus imperium steterat. The old priests used to make them appear perhaps they might do it again. And if spirit could act directly and preternaturally on matter, in spite of the laws of matter, perhaps matter might act on spirit. After all, were matter and spirit so absolutely different?
It was still, indeed, beyond the power of man to lay hold securely of the charity and the regeneration that were henceforth to be his law; and the indefinable terrors of the future, whether seen from the West or from the East, were not at once to be dispelled. "Hac clade factum, ut Imperium quod in littore oceani non steterat, in ripa Rheni fluminis staret."
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