I unfolded to him something of those sublime allegories which are couched beneath her worship.

I excited in a soul peculiarly alive to religious fervor that enthusiasm which imagination begets on faith.

I have placed him amongst you: he is one of you.' 'He is so,' said Calenus: 'but in thus stimulating his faith, you have robbed him of wisdom.

He is horror-struck that he is no longer duped: our sage delusions, our speaking statues and secret staircases dismay and revolt him; he pines; he wastes away; he mutters to himself; he refuses to share our ceremonies.

He has been known to frequent the company of men suspected of adherence to that new and atheistical creed which denies all our gods, and terms our oracles the inspirations of that malevolent spirit of which eastern tradition speaks.