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 and of Æschylus. As we have continually insisted, not only are such books different for us on grounds of religious value, but also poetical inspiration is, both by its nature and its object, different from religious, even though the latter often emerges simultaneously with the former.

And so in these late years there has been on our part an intense and widereaching labour of research, philological, historical, psychological, into all the materials furnished by the memorials of the religious life of humanity. Already the fruits of this research are beginning to appear, and the history of religious experience is revealing itself in modern apologetic in a dazzling light, as clear as it is new. While the essential elements of this experience remain unchanged, new aspects of it, formerly unknown to apologetic, which had examined it only through the lens of the Aristotehan philosophy, have been brought to light.