(3.) Because modern science is _invention_, i.e.finding.It recognizes mysteries in nature which are to be searched into, and this search becomes a serious religious interest with all truly scientific men.

It appears to such men a profanity to doubt or question the revelations of nature, and they believe in its infallible inspiration quite as much as the dogmatist believes in the infallible inspiration of Scripture, or the churchman in the infallible inspiration of the Church.

We may, therefore, say, that the essential truth in the Egyptian system has been taken up into our modern Christian life.
And how is it, lastly, with that opposite pole of religious thought which blossomed out in "the fair humanities of old religion" in the wonderful Hellenic mind?
The gods of Greece were men.

They were not abstract ideas, concealing natural powers and laws.

They were open as sunshine, bright as noon, a fair company of men and women idealized and gracious, just a little way off, a little way up.