It is of all religions the most poetical.

The ancient superstitions furnished the fancy with beautiful images, but took no hold on the heart.

The doctrines of the Reformed Churches have most powerfully influenced the feelings and the conduct of men, but have not presented them with visions of sensible beauty and grandeur.

The Roman Catholic Church has united to the awful doctrines of the one that Mr Coleridge calls the "fair humanities" of the other.

It has enriched sculpture and painting with the loveliest and most majestic forms.