dreamed.

Most of them have been benign and helpful gods. Into the dark
chapters relating to demonical possession and to witchcraft we
cannot here enter. They make one cry out with Lucretius (Bk. V):

O genus infelix humanum, talia divis
Cum tribuit facta atque iras adjunxit acerbas!
Quantos tum gemitus ipsi sibi, quantaque nobis
Vulnera, quas lacrimas peperere minoribu' nostris.

In every age, and in every religion there has been justification for
his bitter words, "tantum religio potuit suadere malorum"--"Such wrongs
Religion in her train doth bring"--yet, one outcome of "a belief in
spiritual beings"--as Tylor defines religion--has been that man has
built an altar of righteousness in his heart. The comparative method
applied to the study of his religious growth has shown how man's
thoughts have widened in the unceasing purpose which runs through his
spiritual no less than his physical evolution. Out of the spiritual
protoplasm of magic have evolved philosopher and physician, as well
as priest. Magic and religion control the uncharted sphere--the
supernatural, the superhuman: science seeks to know the world, and
through knowing, to control it. Ray Lankester remarks that Man is
Nature's rebel, and goes on to say: "The mental qualities which have
developed in Man, though traceable in a vague and rudimentary condition
in some of his animal associates, are of such an unprecedented power and
so far dominate everything else in his activities as a living organism,
that they have to a very large extent, if not entirely, cut him off from
the general operation of that process of Natural Selection and survival
of the fittest which up to their appearance had been the law of the