I believe in the religion of art and of science and of humanity, and countless more; in fact, the only religion I do not believe in is Christianity, because that spoils all the rest by condemning art as fleshly, science as untrue, and humanity as sinful.

I want to bring the old Pantheism to life again, and to teach our people to worship beauty as the Greeks worshipped it of old; and I want you to help me." Elisabeth gasped as Elisha might have gasped when Elijah's mantle fell upon him.

She was as yet too young to beware of false prophets.

"I should love to make people happy," she said; "there seems to be so much happiness in the world and so few that find it." "The Greeks found it; therefore, why should not the English?
I mean to teach them to find it, and I shall begin with your work-people on Whit Monday." "What shall you do ?" asked the girl, with intense interest.
"It is no good taking away old lamps until you are prepared to offer new ones in their place; therefore I shall not take away the consolations (so called) of religion until I have shown the people a more excellent way.

I shall first show them nature, and then art--nature to arouse their highest instincts, and art to express the same; and I am convinced that after they have once been brought face to face with the beautiful thus embodied, the old faiths will lose the power to move them." When Whit Monday came round, the throbbing heart of the Osierfield stopped beating, as it was obliged to stop on a bank-holiday; and the workmen, with their wives and sweethearts, were taken by Alan Tremaine in large brakes to Pembruge Castle, which the owner had kindly thrown open to them, at Alan's request, for the occasion.
It was a long drive and a wonderfully beautiful one, for the year was at its best.