Even while men were slowly rolling it, with tense muscles and panting cries, towards what might well have seemed its eternal chamber, others gods were born, and the cult of the Apis had come to an end--suddenly, then and there! Such a fate may happen indeed to each and all of the religions and institutions of men, even to those most deeply rooted in their hearts and their ancestral past.

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That perhaps is the most disturbing of all our positive notions: to know that there will be a _last_ of all things, not only a last temple, and a last priest, but a last birth of a human child, a last sunrise, a last day.