Close neighborhood was not to his taste.
In their system of religion the two races were most widely contrasted.
The Gauls were a priest-ridden race.

Their Druids were a dominant caste, presiding even over civil affairs, while in religious matters their authority was despotic.

What were the principles of their wild Theology will never be thoroughly ascertained, but we know too much of its sanguinary rites.

The imagination shudders to penetrate those shaggy forests, ringing with the death-shrieks of ten thousand human victims, and with the hideous hymns chanted by smoke-and-blood-stained priests to the savage gods whom they served.
The German, in his simplicity, had raised himself to a purer belief than that of the sensuous Roman or the superstitious Gaul.

He believed in a single, supreme, almighty God, All-Vater or All-father.