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find actual pips in the trunk of a tree or in 

 all vegetables. 



There is a tendency to call the argument 

 or statement that whatever faculty man 

 possesses the Deity must have also, by the 

 name Anthropomorphism ; but it seems to 

 me a misnomer, and to convey quite wrong 

 ideas. The argument represented by " He 

 that formed the eye, shall he not see ? he 

 that planted the ear, shall he not hear ? 1 

 need not assume for a moment that God has 

 sense organs akin to those of man, or that 

 He appreciates ethereal and aerial vibrations 

 in the same sort of way. It is not an 

 assertion of similarity between God and 

 man, but merely a realisation that what 

 belongs to a part must be contained in 

 the whole. It is not even necessarily 

 pantheistic : it would hold equally well on a 

 Theistic interpretation. Regarded pantheisti- 

 cally it is obvious and requires no stating : 

 regarded Theistically, it is a perception that 

 faculties and powers which have come into 

 existence, and are actually at work in the 



