None but divine wisdom was capable of substituting an even and all-embracing light for all those flickering rays of human wisdom.

Pythagoras, Epicurus, Socrates, Plato, are torches: Christ is the glorious light of day.
Nothing could be more material, indeed, than the ancient theogony.

Far from proposing, as Christianity does, to separate the spirit from the body, it ascribes form and features to everything, even to impalpable essences, even to the intelligence.

In it everything is visible, tangible, fleshly.

Its gods need a cloud to conceal themselves from men's eyes.