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Monday, September 17, 2018
Divine Revelation
Ernest Renan (1823-1892), Recollections of My Youth, tr. C.B. Pitman (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1883), p. 51:
The sight of the Acropolis was like a revelation of the Divine...
Quand je vis l'Acropole, j'eus la révélation du divin...