First Edition: May 1912 Second Edition: Sept. 1919...

The thoughtful student, in scanning the religious history of the race, has one fact continually forced upon his notice, viz ., that there is an invariable tendency to deify whomsoever shows himself superior to the weakness of our common humanity. Look where we will, we find the saint-like man exalted into a divine personage and worshipped for a god. Though perhaps misunderstood, reviled and even persecuted while living, the apotheosis is almost sure to come after death: and the victim of yesterd