But now, though many important _lacunae_ remain to be filled, we have ample means of ascertaining the essential facts concerning most of these movements of the human soul.

The time seems to have come to accomplish something which may have a lasting value.
Sec.3.Ethnic Religions.

Injustice often done to them by Christian Apologists.
Comparative Theology, pursuing its impartial course as a positive science, will avoid the error into which most of the Christian apologists of the last century fell, in speaking of ethnic or heathen religions.

In order to show the need of Christianity, they thought it necessary to disparage all other religions.

Accordingly they have insisted that, while the Jewish and Christian religions were revealed, all other religions were invented; that, while these were from God, those were the work of man; that, while in the true religions there was nothing false, in the false religions there was nothing true.