"The different religions being lame attempts to represent under

various guises this one root-fact of the central universal life,

men have at all times clung to the religious creeds and rituals

and ceremonials as symbolising in some rude way the redemption

and fulfilment of their own most intimate natures--and this

whether consciously understanding the interpretations, or whether

(as most often) only doing so in an unconscious or quite

subconscious way."

The Drama of Love and Death, p. 96.