434 THE USE OF ANTHROPOMOEPHISM. 



nous, we must recognise them in common with all theolo- 

 gies, as good for their time and places ; and this mental 

 necessity which disables us from conceiving a deity save as 

 some idealization of ourselves, we must recognise as the 

 agency by which harmony is produced and maintained 

 between every phase of human character and its religious 

 creed. 



