There is a word sweeter than mother, home, or heaven. Each of these strikes the mind with a kind of terror as above or beyond the action of law.
Mysterious things are misunderstood.
Correct judgment is always based on correct understanding of the thing, person, or motive to be judged. The more profound the ignorance, the more deeply is a mystery considered. The scarcely less ignorant civilized devotees holds a fast and offers prayer to avert the pestilence, all unknowing that broken sanitary laws have caused the disease. So ignorance regards mystery and evil as synonymous. Mysteries, if long continued, tend to produce useless disregard of accustomed habits, of religious teaching, and even of life itself.