Here, as before, we may say that Christianity is able to do justice to all the truth involved in the doctrine of evil, avoiding any superficial optimism, and recognizing the fact that all true life must partake of the nature of a battle.
The positive side of Egyptian religion we saw to be a recognition of the divine element in nature, of that plastic, mysterious life which embodies itself in all organisms.

Of this view we find little stated explicitly in the New Testament.

But that the principles of Christianity contain it, implicitly, in an undeveloped form, appears, (1.) Because Christian monotheism differs from Jewish and Mohammedan monotheism, in recognizing God "_in all things_" as well as God "_above all things_." (2.) Because Christian art and literature differ from classic art and literature in the _romantic_ element, which is exactly the sense of this mysterious life in nature.

The classic artist is a [Greek: poietes], a maker; the romantic artist is a troubadour, a finder.

The one does his work in giving form to a dead material; the other, by seeking for its hidden life.