Christianity gave to it both depth and form; only the despair that might have been produced in this way was now softened by hope.
Christianity has, in fact, declared clearly a supernatural of which men before were more or less ignorantly conscious.

The declaration may or may not have been a complete one, but at any rate it is the completest that the world has yet known.

And the practical result is this: when we, in these days, deny the supernatural, we are denying it in a way in which it was never denied before.

Our denial is beyond all comparison more complete.

The supernatural, for the ancient world, was like a perfume scenting life, out of a hundred different vessels, of which only two or three were visible to the same men or nations.