text:  The traces of each successive handwriting regularly effaced as had been imagined have in the inverse order been regularly called back: the footsteps of the game pursued wolf or stag in each several chase have been unlinked and hunted back through all their doubles; and as the chorus of the Athenian stage unwove through the antistrophe every step that had been mystically woven through the strophe so by our modern conjurations of science secrets of ages remote from each other have been exorcised[9] from the accumulated shadows of centuries