Note 66 — Chapter III · Demons and Familiars
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The Dean of S. Paul’s (Christian Mysticism, 1899, p. 265) urbanely dismisses the whole subject with a quotation from Lucretius:
Hunc igitur terrorem animi, tenebrasque necessest Non radii solis, neque lucida tela diei Discutiant, sed naturæ species ratioque. (I. 147-49.) These Fears, that darkness that o’erspreads our Souls, Day can’t disperse, but those eternal rules Which from firm Premises true Reason draws, And a deep insight into Natures laws. (Creech.)