Chapter XV: Part IV: The Preservation of the Treasury

"Laugh and mock if you will at the worship of stone
idols, but mark ye this, ye breakers of images, that in
one regard the stone idol bears awful semblance of
Deity--the unchangefulness in the midst of change--the
same seeming will, and intent for ever and ever
inexorable!... And we, we shall die, and Islam will
wither away, and the Englishman straining far over to
hold his loved India, will plant a firm foot on the banks
of the Nile and sit in the seats of the Faithful, and
still that sleepless rock will lie watching and watching
the works of the new busy race, with those same sad
earnest eyes, and the same tranquil mien everlastingly."
--KINGLAKE: _Eothen_ (1844).