No such pleasing concomitance of characteristics is observable to-day, or has been presented in the past.

Permitting, however, the dead past to bury its shortcomings in oblivion, let us look at the world as we find it.

We observe, then, that the religious spirit is quite as strong in Asia as it is in Europe; if anything, that at the present time it is rather stronger.

The average Brahman, Mahometan, or Buddhist is quite as devout as the ordinary Roman Catholic or Presbyterian.

If he is somewhat less given to propagandism, he is not a whit less regardful of his own salvation.