By the way, what was the date that this religion was laughed away.

I can remember perfectly the downfall of the Homeric deities--how many years there were when the common people believed in the divine origin of the Odyssey, while the educated classes were more or less discreetly heretical, until at last the whole Olympian outfit became poetic myths.

But strangely enough I do not recall just the date when _we_ began to demand a god of dignity and morality." The old man had been loath to leave the sufferer.

He still stood by the open door to call to the first passer-by.

Now, shudderingly wishful to stem the torrent of blasphemies, innocent though they were, he ventured cautiously: "There was Sinai--you forget the tables--the moral law--the ten commandments." "Sinai, to be sure.