In the meantime the world will have learned to know Jesus, who and what he was, and how he became the Christ, and will have joined in his Divine Mission to man, as the teeming millions joined in old India under Christna ages ago.
CHAPTER IX
HERO WORSHIP AND FOLKLORE
The history of every people, of all time, and of every religion of which we have any record, reveals a similar origin, course, and destiny.
We of the present day have the advantage of these records upon which to institute comparisons, ascertain relations, and draw conclusions.
True, the partisans and postulants of all these religions at the present day will claim exception in favor of their own cult, and regard as sacrilegious and profane any attempt to institute comparisons and draw general conclusions.
Any attempt to persuade them of their error would be useless.
The essentials of their religion will not be called in question, but on the other hand, they will find that it is impossible to escape from the habitual and universal tendencies in which they are involved.