Ritual was to him a beautiful adjunct; not a symbolical preoccupation.

The ritual then of the murderers was a Greek ritual, their cult a Greek cultpreferably, perhaps, a South Greek one, a Spartan one, for it was here that the highly conservative peoples of that region clung longest and fondliest to this semi-barbarous worship.

The Egyptian ritual of worship was the most complicated of all rituals, and their literature and philosophy were only branches of theology.