Of all historic characters, Jesus is the most beautiful and the most heroic.

I have always been a friend to hero-worship, it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people--the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism--it is mere fetish; the savages of West Africa are all spirit worshippers.

But there is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race, and the true hero is the benefactor.

Brahma, Jupiter, Bacchus, were all benefactors, and, therefore, entitled to the worship of their respective peoples.

The Celts worshipped Hesus, who taught them to plough, a highly useful art.