Nature worship has been regarded as the foundation of all religions. In early philosophy throughout the world, the sun and moon were alive, and, as it were, human in their nature. We should be quite unable truly to understand how the central myths and poesies originated, if we cannot, in some degree at least, realize the wonder with which men saw the daily and yearly renewed sublime spectacle of the birth, the life course, and the death of the life-and-light-giving Creator actually visible in the Heavens.--A wonder of eternal Re-birth…
