" We know better
than the scholars, even those of us who are no scholars, what was in
that hollow cry that went forth over the dead Adonis and why the Great
Mother had a daughter wedded to death. We have entered more deeply than
they into the Eleusinian Mysteries and have passed a higher grade, where
gate within gate guarded the wisdom of Orpheus. We know the meaning of
all the myths. We know the last secret revealed to the perfect initiate.
And it is not the voice of a priest or a prophet saying 'These things
are.' It is the voice of a dreamer and an idealist crying, 'Why cannot
these things be? "

― G.K. Chesterton , The Everlasting Man