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I have come to think that this readiness to live entirely in the present - in which we spare ourselves any self-reproach and fail completely to see ourselves as others see us - is a metaphor for the Godless state, in which we simultaneously ignore the experience and warnings of our past and the unknown, limitless dangers of our future.

The astonishing swiftness of the change, like the crumbling of an Egyptian mummy to dust as fresh air rushes into the long sealed tomb chamber, has been one of the features of my life. It suggests that our old morality was sustained only by custom and inertia, not by any deep attachment or understanding, and so had no ability to withstand the sneering assault of the modern age.