The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.