Even in Egypt where birds and beasts and creeping things received divine honors there were scholars and poets who had an exalted idea of the Deity, as witness the Poems of Pentaur.

This is true also of some of the Greek Poets who had a deep insight into divine things.

It is not a little interesting to note also that artists of different nations paint the Madonna after the style of their own women.

Very few of the pictures in the great art galleries are after the style of face which you see in the Orient.
Hence there are Dutch Madonnas, and Italian and French and English types.

There were no worshippers in the Joss-House at the hour when I visited it.