...tendency amongft mankind to conceive all beings like themfelves, and to transfer to every object thofe qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately confcious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds ; and by a natural propenfity, if...

...tendency amongft mankind to conceive all beings like themfelves, and to transfer to every object thofe qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately confcious. We find human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds ; and by a natural propenfity, if...

...and confused manner; though their imagination, perpetually employed on the same subject, must labor to form some particular and distinct idea of them....corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good-will to every thing that hurts or pleases us. Hence the frequency and beauty of the prosopopoeia...

...regular and constant machinery, all the events are produced, about which they are so much concerned There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive...experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good will to everything that hurts or pleases us. Hence the frequency and beauty of the prosopopoeia in poetry;...

...regular and constant machinery, all the events are produced, about which they are so much concerned There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive...armies in the clouds ; and, by a natural propensity, it not corrected by experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good will to everything that hurts...

...polytheism precedes monotheism, but also traces the origin of all religion to its rudiment, in that ' universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings...acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.' 2 The greater the knowledge we acquire of the spiritual rudiments of primitive people, the more certainly...

...concerning Natural Religion.' In the Essay from which the above quotation is made, he speaks " of the universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to any object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted.* He is everywhere full of the...

...concerning Natural Religion." In the essay from which the above quotation is made, he speaks "of the universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to any object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted."" He is everywhere full of the...

...is that of the shadows of men's own minds, projected out of themselves by their imaginations : — "There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive...acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. . . . The unknown causes which continually employ their thought, appearing always in the same aspect,...

...lowly, much-enduring, and much-labouring ancestors. • Hume writes thus of Fetichism : " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings...experience and reflection, ascribe malice or good to everything that hurts or pleases us. Hence the frequency and beauty of the prosopopaia in poetry,...