The suggestion was hardly so diplomatic as might have been expected from so generally astute a body; for it could not make much difference what the all-presiding deity was called, if his actions were the same, since his motives were beyond human observation.

Besides, the bare idea of a foreign bogus was not very terrifying.

The Chinese possessed too many familiar devils of their own.

But there was another and a much deeper reason, which we shall come to later, why Christianity made but little headway in the Far East.
But it is by no means in externals only that the two religions are alike.

If the first glance at them awakens that peculiar sensation which most of us have felt at some time or other, a sense of having seen all this before, further scrutiny reveals a deeper agreement than merely in appearances.
In passing from the surface into the substance, it may be mentioned incidentally that the codes of morality of the two are about on a level.
I say incidentally, for so far as its practice, certainly, is concerned, it not its preaching, morality has no more intimate connection with religion than it has with art or politics.