Therefore, Mr Baring Gould truly says--"Philosophy alone is not religion." Philosophy, as we have seen, may prove the existence of God. But religion, from the commencement of the world, has conveyed the idea that there is a particular mode in which God must be worshipped. Here philosophy is entirely at fault. Mr Baring Gould again truly says that "dogma, worship, and discipline are the constituents, so to speak, the mind, spirit, and body of religion" (p. 119). But he goes no further, and does not explain how it came about that mankind in all ages have adhered with singular pertinacity to the notion that religion could teach that on which philosophy must perforce be silent. Has not the greater intellect ever been on the side of philosophy? Nay,[121] in the epochs in which intellectual superiority was undeniably on the side of philosophy, did the populace go to the academy or to the oracles? If the human intellect had originally framed the ritualistic observances, which bore so strange a resemblance in different parts of the world; if human sagacity had originated the idea of sacrifice (and wherefore sacrifice from the point of view of human sagacity?); if philosophy had revealed to them the religious conceptions which they retained, and had been able to define the relation of man to the Divinity--would not mankind, in all ages, have had recourse to its greatest intellects for the solution of its doubts, rather than to the guardians of an obscure and corrupt tradition? The question no doubt is complicated with the evidence as to demonolatry; but the extent to which this prevailed only enforces the argument against Mr Baring Gould, to whom, apparently, the demon (p. 135) is not a real existence, but only the embodiment of a phase of thought, and must seriously embarrass those who attribute the regeneration of man from savagery to intellectual growth and natural progress. [121] "The lively Grecian, in a land of hills, Rivers, and fertile plains, and sounding shores, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In despite Of the gross fictions chanted in the streets By wandering rhapsodists, and in contempt Of doubt and bold denial hourly urged Amid the wrangling schools, a Spirit hung, Beautiful region! o'er thy towns and farms, Statues and temples, and memorial tombs; And emanations were perceived, and acts Of immortality, in nature's course, Exemplified by mysteries that were felt As bonds, _on grave philosopher imposed_, And armed warrior; and in every grove A gay or pensive tenderness prevailed, When piety more awful had relaxed." --WORDSWORTH, _Excursion_, B. iv.