Letter from Dora Greenwell, England, to William Angus Knight, 1866 March 21 : autograph manuscript.

Expressing her delight at helping him with his book but fearing "...I can do very little in the region of the Ethical...What I intend is to send you whatever I can about mythology, 'the genius of Paganism'....The more I think of Heathendom as a whole the more a sense of its unity grows upon me, however flowery the surface may be, however [illegible] wrought & tapestried with beautiful & heroic forms, there is always a deep sprung mine beneath the flowers, a chamber of torture behind the arras;" referring to various rituals of paganism; adding "The difficulty in entering into this subject seems to me to be this - at what point of view to consider nature. By nature I mean the vast living energy & power which runs through & maintains the universe, & which acts & manifests itself through a series of obvious, ever recurring laws & agencies - How far is nature identical with God, the God of Revelation. Any enquiry into Mythology would be deeply concerned with this question;" discussing nature and Deism and referring to the views of Schiller, Goethe & Michelet on Paganism.