CHAPTER XI.

The Religious Temperament of the Eastern and Western Peoples.

The relation of the individual to the deity more intimate in Mesopotamia than in Greece--The religious temper more ecstatic, more prone to self-abasement, sentimentality, rapture--Humility and the fear of God ethical virtues in Babylonia--The child named after the god in both societies--In some Semitic communities the deity takes a title from the worshipper--Fanaticism in Mesopotamian religion, entire absence of it in the Hellenic