“Great Pan is...alive!”

Once upon a time, begins Eugene McCrarrher in The Enchantments of Mammon, the world was enchanted. Rocks, trees, rivers, and rain pulsated with invisible forces, powers that enlivened and determined the affairs of tribes and empires as well. Though beholden to the caprice or providential design of a variety of spirits and deities, the world of enchantment could be commanded by magic or humbly beseeched through prayer.1 He goes on to argue that first the Protestant Reformation, followed by the...