Gradually this question was straightened out for him: it became clear to him that the religion instilled by his earliest consciousness had been simply the religion of the Dead.

It suited his inclination, it satisfied his spirit, it gave employment to his piety.

It answered his love of great offices, of a solemn and splendid ritual; for no shrine could be more bedecked and no ceremonial more stately than those to which his worship was attached.

He had no imagination about these things but that they were accessible to any one who should feel the need of them.

The poorest could build such temples of the spirit--could make them blaze with candles and smoke with incense, make them flush with pictures and flowers.