And by being philosophers we have made our worship more an act of tribute to human nature.

The heathen who bows in apprehension or awe before the image of an unknown god may be rendering all the worship he knows; but the soul that finds its divinity by knowledge and love has communion of another kind.

So the worship which many render to the unexplained, the fantastic, the cataclysmal--this is the awe that is born of ignorance.

Given a philosophy that brings the great into touch with the commonplace, that delineates the forces which arise to their highest grandeur only in a man here and there, that enables us to contrast the best in us with the poverty of him, and then we may do intelligent homage.

To know that the greatest men of earth are men who think as I do, but deeper, and see the real as I do, but clearer, who work to the goal that I do, but faster, and serve humanity as I do, but better--that may be an incitement to my humility, but it is also an inspiration to my life.
LITERATURE[14] [Footnote 14: Only books in English.