But  in  admitting  this  we  must  not  overlook  the  fact
that  human  experience  is  always  complex.  In  so  far  as
men  are  kind  to  each  other,  even  while  they  worship  a
hard-hearted  notion  of  God,  they  come  unconsciously
into  touch  with  the  Spirit  by  their  kindness.  The
poetic  insight  of  the  Christ  depicts  the  virtues  of  pagans
in  the  story  of  the  sheep  gathered  from  all  nations.
Again,  good  people  whose  unchallenged  traditions  have
led  them  to  believe  in  a  false  notion  of  God  are  often,
after  performing  propitiatory  rites  to  an  unkind  God,
in  a  frame  of  mind  to  turn  with  simple  faith  to  the
notion  of  true  goodness  in  God,  and  thus  come  in
the  end,  and  intermittently,  into  touch  with  the
Creative  Spirit.  The  result  of  such  worship  we  should
expect  to  be  a  combination  of  power  and  weakness,
insight  and  superstition,  common  sense  and  folly,  magic
and  science,  cruelty  and  love.  Religious  history  cer-
tainly bears  out  our  hypothesis  here.
