In this connection we may answer those who thus insist on the truth and certainty of the reality of objects of sense, by saying that they had better be sent back to the most elementary school of wisdom, the ancient Eleusinian mysteries of Ceres and Bacchus; they have not yet learnt the inner secret of the eating of bread and the drinking of wine. For one who is initiated into these mysteries not only comes to doubt the being of things of sense, but gets into a state of despair about it altogether; and in dealing with them he partly himself brings about the nothingness of those things, partly he sees these bring about their own nothingness.
Praktika kontuan hartzean sentipenezko objektuen errealitatearen egia eta ziurtasun hura baieztatzen dutenei esan diezaieke jakituriaren eskolaren lehen mailara itzuli behar dutela, hots, Zeres eta Bacoren misterio eleusinar zaharretara, eta ogia jatearen eta ardoa edatearen sekretua ikasi behar dutela oraindik; izan ere, sekretu horietan sarbidea lortu duena sentipenezko gauzen izateaz zalantzan egitera ez ezik izate horren etsipenera ere ailegatzen da eta, aldez, hark haietan beren ezezkotasuna sortzen du, eta aldez, haiek sortzen dutela ikusten du.