No wonder that the consideration at that country toward which mankind is ever being hastened should prove as absorbing to fancy as contemplated earthly journeys proverbially are.

Few people but have laid out skeleton tours through its ideal regions, and perhaps, as in the mapping beforehand of merely mundane travels, one element of attraction has always consisted in the possible revision of one's routes.
Besides, there is a fascination about the foreign merely because it is such.

Distance lends enchantment to the views of others, and never more so than when those views are religious visions.

An enthusiast has certainly a greater chance of being taken for a god among a people who do not know him intimately as a man.

So with his doctrines.