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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: - but they were there before. They are transcripts, types - the
archtypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital
of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect
us all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects,
considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us
bodily injury? O, least of all! These terrors are of older standing.
They date beyond body - or without the body, they would have been
the same... That the kind of fear here treated is purely spiritual
- that it is strong in proportion as it is objectless on earth,
that it predominates in the period of our sinless infancy - are
difficulties the solution of which might afford some probable
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