Great
Mother,
with its
curious
blending
of crude
savagery
with
spiritual
aspirations,
was only
one of a
multitude
of similar
Oriental
faiths
which in
the later
days of
paganism
spread
over the
Roman
Empire,
and by
saturating
the
European
peoples
with alien
ideals of
life
gradually
undermined
the whole
fabric of
ancient
civilisation.
Greek and
Roman
society
was built
on the
conception
of the
subordination
of the
individual
to the
community,
