A Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries

...philosophy, by whose assistance these mysteries are developed, it is as old as the universe itself. However its continuity may be broken by opposing systems, it will make its appearance at different periods of time as long as the sun itself continues to illuminate the world. It has, indeed, been violently assaulted by delusive opinions, and may be so hereafter; but the opposition will be just as feeble as the waves of the sea against a temple built on a rock, which majestically pours them back,

Broken and vanquished, foaming to the main.