In like manner it might have been, that God willed to let men wander through the slums and backways of animism into the open road of theism.

There was a vista bounded by a stretch of one of those unutterably bleak backways of a small and shabby French town.

All around us is the city of small sins, abounding in backways and retreats, but surely, sooner or later, the towering flame will rise from the harbour announcing that the reign of the cowards is over and a man is burning his ships.