When we further remember that their glorious literature was created by native genius, without the aid of Christianity, we are filled with amazement, and may almost be excused if we deify the reason of man.

LARES, household deities of the Romans; originally deified ancestors of the families whose family life they protected, and images of whom were kept in some shrine in the house near the hearth.

Their voluptuous art, in deifying the human form, held down thought to earth.

We should "take the good the Gods provide us:" a fine and original vein of poetry is not one of their most contemptible gifts, and the rest is scarcely worth thinking of, except as it may be a mortification to those who expect perfection from human nature; or who have been idle enough at some period of their lives, to deify men of genius as possessing claims above it.

We have seen them successively and implicitly adopting all the new constitutions and strange gods which faction and extravagance could devisewe have seen them alternately the dupes and slaves of all parties: at one period abandoning their King and their religion: at another adulating Robespierre, and deifying Marat.

The inference from our own spiritual, self-conscious, free personality to that of God is no unauthorized anthropomorphismin the knowledge of God we may fearlessly deify our human existence, because God, when he created man, gave his divine nature human form.

You will understand, then, Marquis, that it is not necessary to acquire the habit of deifying the fancy you entertain for the Countess.

Whatsoever St. Paul meant by bidding his disciples crucify the flesh, with its affections and lusts, he did not mean thereby that they were to deify the flesh, as the heathen round them did in their profligate mysteries and in their gladiatorial exhibitions.

And worseshall we not be always in danger of deifying our own superstitionsperhaps our own vices: of making a God in our own image, because we cannot know that God in whose image we are made?

This regimentation dulled imagination at the same time that it deified greed, with "gimme, gimme;" "more, more;" as its watch words.

They were often lazy and shiftless, but they never deified laziness and shiftlessness or made them into a cult.

"Having proceeded to deify leeks and onions, you, oh Egypt, worship such gods.

For it is not immortal, as participating of life, but as supplying divine life, and deifying life itself.

In politics their pride is that they are practical, and, indeed, they are perhaps less ready than Europeans to deify theories and catchwords.

And worseshall we not be always in danger of deifying our own superstitionsperhaps our own vices: of making a God in our own image, because we cannot know that God in whose image we are made?

Even his patriotic songs, "The Lyre and the Sword," were a cause of disagreement, for Caroline, like so many women, deified Napoleon, and her lover's lyric assaults upon him were so much sacrilege; while to him her adoration of that personified prairie-fire, who had devastated the Fatherland, was treason.

So, too, the tendency of Shaftesbury to deify Nature appears in several ardent passages.

How in the world can you deify a person whom you don't remember?

Medwin's Biography and Mrs. Shelley's Memorials are worthless, because they attempt to idealise and deify the poet; and then there is The Real Shelley, which is like a tedious legal cross-examination of a highly imaginative and sensitive creature by a shrewd and boisterous barrister.

Whoever deprives the monad of activity falls into the error of Spinoza; whoever takes away its passivity or matter falls into the opposite error, for he deifies individual beings.

That at this day the inhabitants of India deify their principal rivers is a well known fact; the waters of the Ganges possess an uncommon sanctity; and the modern Arabians, like the Ishmaelites of old, concur with the Danmonii in their reverence of springs and fountains.

In religion man makes a division in his own nature, posits himself as double, first as limited (as a human individual), then as unlimited, raised to infinity (as God); and this deified self he worships in order to obtain from it the satisfaction of his needs, which the course of the world leaves unmet.

But, after all, people have adopted the best plan, that is, to explain everything to their advantage, and to compensate themselves in imagination for their real miseries, and accustom themselves, as I think I have already said, to deifying all their sentiments.

Mainly it was the military counterpart of the rope-of-sand infirmity inherent in a Confederacy which in every possible way deified the individual State and snubbed the central power.

The man deifies his Beloved, the mother her child, and all men everlasting humanity.