Excerpt from The Unknown God: Or Inspiration Among Pre-Christian Races

What may be called the "modern method" in studying ethic or heathen religions is not, as was once the case, merely to search for their defects, or to show their inferiority to the highest religion, but to find what good there was in them; to see how the man of other races and times regarded the problems of the universe. We wish to know what was his conception of the primeval Cause, what he considered his relation to be to that strange power, and how far that relation affected his daily life and practical morals. We would gladly know how he regarded the great darkness beyond life, and what thoughts he conceived of another life and of the beings there. We eagerly seek to learn what moral ideals and conceptions he transferred to another existence, and how far he succeeded in lifting the great veil which hangs before it. We try to stand in his footsteps and to see the great mystery as he endeavored to see it.

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