The Christians have but few gods, and they are new--new, and not strong; as it seems to us.

They will increase in number, it is true, for this has happened with all gods, but that time is far away, many ages and decades of ages away, for gods multiply slowly, as is meet for beings to whom a thousand years is but a single moment.

Our own gods have been born millions of years apart.

The process is slow, the gathering of strength and power is similarly slow.

In the slow lapse of the ages the steadily accumulating power of our gods has at last become prodigious.