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Quote from "The New Century's Goddess" (1861)

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The Chinese Wall will soon fall. The railways of Europe open old Asia's tightly sealed culture archives, and the opposing streams of human culture meet, mayhap with a thunderous crash. The oldsters of our days will tremble at that sound and hear in it a judgment, the fall of ancient gods, forgetting that times and peoples must pass from the earth, and only a tiny image, sealed in a word casket, remain of each, floating like a lotus flower on the stream of eternity, and telling us that all were flesh of our flesh, dressed in different attire. The Jewish image shines radiant from the Bible; the Greek from the Iliad and the Odyssey; and ours? Ask it of the coming Goddess, at judgment time, when the new heaven is lifted to light and sight at the judgment day.

Source: Jean Hersholt's translation of "The New Century's Goddess"

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Registered motifs in this quote:

1. Armageddon, The Twilight of the Gods
2. Gods, spirits and demons
3. Lotus flower
4. Religion
5. The Holy Bible

Keywords: The future

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