He denied the theology of his time as strongly as our positive thinkers deny the theology of ours.

But the theology he denied was incomplete and puerile.

He was not denying any 'All-embracer and All-sustainer,' for he knew of none such.

And his denial of the gods he did deny left him room for the affirmation of others, whose existence, if considered accurately, was equally inconsistent with his own scientific premisses.

Again, in his denial of any immortality for man, what he denied is not the future that we are denying.