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man is as a vessel, and God is as the sea; and the soul, God's power, returns to him who emitted it." This is not idolatry, nor polytheism.

From the foundation of the Roman empire no authentic book in the latin tongue has claimed that any other than Jupiter was "father of gods and men." "God most good, most great," was a title applied to Jove alone, to whom all other gods and spirits were but as saints in the calendar, or the fabulous representatives of ancient speculation. We shall submit a quotation which speaks for itself and all its age, from Maximus of Tyre, who flourished under the Antonines,—"Men have been so foolish as to give to God a human figure, because they have seen nothing superior to man; but it is only ridiculous to imagine with Homer that Jupiter, or the Supreme Deity, has black eye-brows and golden hair, which he cannot shake without making the heavens tremble! When men are questioned concerning the nature of Deity, their answers are all different. Yet notwithstanding this prodigious variety of opinions, you will find one and the same feeling throughout the earth, namely, that there is but one God, who is the father of all."—Fresh, fair and wise, as it were written yesterday by the wisest critic of these latter days.

After times may condemn as polytheists all those who now worship the mystery of Three in One, far from suspicion of such a fate; and a petrified trilobite may pass for an idol of the nineteenth century, when this book, like Maximus', shall lie mouldering and unopened. — How ominous were the words of Cicero,—"The people may yet come to believe that these