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Additionally, due to an additional editing error, an earlier draft of this article consisting of the phrase, “MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN!” repeated 75 times in steadily increasing font sizes was published by mistake; this has been corrected.

Is it because the foundation of their temple is crumbling, because the walls are cracked, the pillars leaning, the great dome swaying to its fall, and because Science has written over the high altar its mene, mene, tekel, upharsin—the old words, destined to be the epitaph of all religions?

This is the writing that was written: 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.'

See I not in yonder letters a ‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin’? 

The crown prince Belshazzar, the son of Nabonidus, was feasting, the Bible relates, when a hand appeared and wrote in letters of fire upon the wall these mystical words: “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin,” which was interpreted by the prophet Daniel, whom he summoned to read the riddle, as “God has numbered thy kingdom and finished it; thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting and thy kingdom is given to the Medes and Persians.”