gods of Egypt, of Babylonia, of Phrygia, of Greece, of Rome. Socrates and Plato created a yearning after one God rather than faith in many. There were still gods in plenty, but no longer the childlike faith in them seen in the Homeric poems. The forms of worship were kept up, but even the priests would wink at each other on the street. Julius Cæsar, Cato, the elder Pliny, Lucretius, Varro, were all sceptics. Cicero was in doubt. The Emperor Augustus, though superstitious, was an unbeliever and was