I go out in the early morning and there is such silence that even breath is a profanation.
And finding their deities incapable of preventing or even punishing this profanation of their shrines, they conceived a low opinion of their power compared to their own village rulers.
"There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship."
I wish to repeat what I wrote in my Message for January1:" It is a profanation of religion to declare oneself a terrorist in the name of God, to do violence to others in his name.
"no more do I, and that was what I was observng to this gentleman just now. I said I looked upon it as a sacrilegious profanation to reward treachery, perhaps crime."
He felt it as a profanation to break upon that enchanted strain.
he brought away with him a treasure of pious thoughts, to which the mad gayety of the maskers would have been profanation.
