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Pagan gods were depicted as tossing men like dice;and indeed they are loaded dice.
There had never before been any such union of the priestsand the philosophers.
It is somethingin the soul of poetry if not of piety. In order to understandit we must pass to a review of the other kind of paganism.
It had and has, of course, many other things on the same pattern. They certainly did not work together;if anything the philosopher was a rival of the priest. Apollo does not merely dwellwherever the sun shines; his home is on the rock of Delphi.
I was the only person present who had neglected to providehimself with a fetish. I was the only person present who had neglected to providehimself with a fetish.
They are not really much more serious for being taken seriously. It is by no means clear, so far as I know, that the Eskimos everindulged in human sacrifice.
Certainly the pagan does not disbelieve like an atheist,any more than he believes like a Christian. He worships the peak of a particular mountain,not the abstract idea of altitude. For Carthage also was a high civilisation, indeed a much morehighly civilised civilisation. Chill penury repressed their noble rage and frozethe genial current of the soul.
First, these imaginative impressions are often strictly local.
It is the voice of a dreamer and an idealist crying,Why cannot these things be? They are only different because one is real and the other is not.
Paul said that the Greeks had one altar to an unknown god.
He was not so much antagonistic as absent-minded.
They are acting like a Parisian decadentat a Black Mass.
It was in brighter days and broaderdaylight that the noble rage is found unmistakably raging.
In what senseexactly did an Athenian really think he had to sacrifice toPallas Athena? And it is not the voice of a priest or a prophet saying Thesethings are. Sooner or later a man deliberatelysets himself to do the most disgusting thing he can think of. But the name was so used by many to whom it was only a name.
This feeling existsin both the forms of paganism here under consideration.
There was at least no doubt about the dragon. It had and has, of course, many other things on the same pattern. It is at least very closely connected with agnosticism.
Chill penury repressed their noble rage and frozethe genial current of the soul.
But we all know that this didnot mean that all pagan men thought of nothing but pagan gods. This is the meaning of most of the cannibalism in the world.
They are too inhuman even to be indecent.
After all, Shelley wrote of the skylark because it was a skylark.
And it is not the voice of a priest or a prophet saying Thesethings are.
They are not really much more serious for being taken seriously. It has taken intellect seriously; and it may be that it stands alonein the world.
There was but one thingbetween them; and the thing which divided them has united them.