The Catholic heaven is peopled, all the way up, with beautiful human forms; and on the upper throne we have holiness and tenderness incarnate in the queen of heaven and her divine Son.

All the Greek humanities are thus fulfilled in the ample faith of Christendom.
By such a critical survey as we have thus sketched in mere outline it will be seen that each of the great ethnic religions is full on one side, but empty on the other, while Christianity is full all round.

Christianity is adapted to take their place, not because they are false, but because they are true as far as they go.

They "know in part and prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away." Sec.8.Comparative Theology will probably show that Ethnic Religions are arrested, or degenerate, and will come to an End, while the Catholic Religion is capable of a progressive Development.
The religions of Persia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, have come to an end; having shared the fate of the national civilization of which each was a part.

The religions of China, Islam, Buddha, and Judaea have all been arrested, and remain unchanged and seemingly unchangeable.