ABSTRACT
Among the adages and proverbs which tend to become the philosophy of the thoughtless, one of the most dangerous is: "Seeing believes". It is obvious that religion begins where philosophy takes off from the solid shore of the exact sciences into speculative waters, the shallows of which are metaphysics. What might eventually be attained is what, for a time, the Greeks achieved when the philosophy of Plato was the religion of educated people, and what, in the form of Confucianism, existed to some extent in China. It is interesting to speculate what the Greeks might have achieved in another three or four hundred years of development if the empire building of the Romans, and the evolution of a Christian Europe out of barbarism, had not interrupted them. With the influence of Christianity, there was of course a considerable change in some of the views.
