ANTHROPOMORPHIC THEISM 



thought, he is but unawares contemplating his 

 own personality reflected before him, and mis- 

 taking. Narcissus-like, a mirrored image for a 

 substantial object of adoration. Thus is ex- 

 plained, even while it is refuted, the famous 

 argument of the watch, with all its numerous 

 kindred. In the anthropomorphic hypothesis, 

 the bearings of the inner and the outer worlds 

 are exactly reversed. It is not the intelligence 

 which has made the environment, but it is the 

 environment which has moulded the intelligence. 

 In the mint of nature, the coin Mind has been 

 stamped ; and theology, perceiving the likeness 

 of the die to its impression, has unwittingly in- 

 verted the causal relation of the two, making 

 Mind, archetypal and self-existent, to be the 

 die. 



Therefore, to cite the language employed with 

 slightly different but kindred intent by Mr. 

 Barratt, " we protest against the reversal of the 

 true order. . . . We must not fall down and 

 worship as the source of our life and virtue the 

 image which our own minds have set up. Why 

 is such idolatry any better than that of the old 

 wood and stone ? If we worship the creations 

 of our minds, why not also those of our hands ? 

 The one is indeed a more refined self-adoration 

 than the other ; but the radical error remains the 

 same in both. The old idolators were wrong, 

 not because they worshipped themselves, but 

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