It is equally useful as a guide to the religious and nationalist emotions at play in the arms race on the Indian subcontinent.
But it is on the third floor, with Byzantine art saturated in religious emotion, that everything comes into rhapsodic focus.
His three henchmen, however, were quite untouched by religious emotions.
"A central candidate for a distinctively religious emotion would be reverence".
What had happened to him when first he was seized by the religious emotion happened to him now.
But no one seems sure where this controversy could lead if religious emotions are stirred.
Yet right up to the end, Schliermacher insisted that religious emotion was not opposed to reason.
We have seen it turn in Eastern Europe, with rising national and religious emotions many thought had disappeared.
It didn't feel to me like a setting for ardent religious emotion.
Yet, as we have seen, the need in Eliot to relate art to ritual and to religious emotion continued unabated.