In other words, the very names from a different age have lingered and survived into our world, carrying with them a faint perfume from distant times. We cannot even speak without, however obliquely, thinking in myth. Moreover, the myths weren’t essentially untrue. They were based on deep ancient intuitions—the premonitions of the praeparatio evangelica—that the physical world was moving “in answer to the eternal music,” based on the fundamental belief that God uses the natural world to express “himself through the minds of poets, and [uses] images in their ‘mythopoeia’ to express fragments of
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