in olden times
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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed-in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.
Procopius wrote in 545 that "the Sclaveni and the Antae actually had a single name in the remote past; for they were both called Sporoi in olden times."
It was believed in olden times that people were born again, but that is now called old wives' folly.