Posuit.
It is marvellous what a long line of superhuman powers, major and minor, man has invoked against sickness.

In Swinburne's words: God by God flits past in thunder till his glories turn to shades, God by God bears wondering witness how his Gospel flames and fades; More was each of these, while yet they were, than man their servant seemed; Dead are all of these, and man survives who made them while he dreamed.
Most of them have been benign and helpful gods.

Into the dark chapters relating to demonical possession and to witchcraft we cannot here enter.

They make one cry out with Lucretius (Bk.

V): O genus infelix humanum, talia divis Cum tribuit facta atque iras adjunxit acerbas! Quantos tum gemitus ipsi sibi, quantaque nobis Vulnera, quas lacrimas peperere minoribu' nostris.
In every age, and in every religion there has been justification for his bitter words, "tantum religio potuit suadere malorum"-- "Such wrongs Religion in her train doth bring"-- yet, one outcome of "a belief in spiritual beings"-- as Tylor defines religion--has been that man has built an altar of righteousness in his heart.