Larger horizons extended before the human intellect.

The soul expanded in more exhilarating regions than the old theologies had offered.

The sense of the Divine in Nature, instead of dwindling down to atheism, received fresh stimulus from the immeasurable prospect of an infinite and living universe.

Bruno, even more than Spinoza, was a God-intoxicated man.

The inebriation of the Renaissance, inspired by golden visions of truth and knowledge close within man's grasp, inflamed with joy at escaping from out-worn wearying formula into what appeared to be the simple intuition of an everlasting verity, pulses through all his utterances.