But when a belief vanishes, there survives it-more and more ardently, so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new phenomena-an idolatrous attachment to the old things which our belief in them did once animate, as if it was in that belief and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause-the death of the gods.
Baina, sinesmen bat desagertzen denean, gain-bizitzen zaio-eta gero eta biziago gain-bizi ere, gauza berriei errealitatea emateko galdu dugun ahalmenaren hutsunea mozorrotzearren hain zuzen-halako atxikimendu fetitxista bat sinesmen hark biziaraziak zituèn gauza zaharrekiko, berauetan bailetzan-eta ez gure baitan-jainkozkotasuna eta Jainkoen heriotza bailitzan gure gaur egungo sinesmen-ezaren kausa kontingentea.