Here I close these studies on the Religious Sentiment. They show it to be a late and probably a final development of mind. The intellect first reaches entire self-consciousness, the emotions first attain perfection of purpose, when guided by its highest manifestation. Man’s history seems largely to have been a series of efforts to give it satisfaction. This will be possible only when he rises to a practical appreciation of the identity of truth, love and life. FOOTNOTES: [236-1] _Essay on the use of Anthropomorphism._ Mr. Spencer’s argument, in his own words, is this:--“From the inability under which we labor to conceive of a Deity save as some idealization of ourselves, it inevitably results that in each age, among each people, and to a great extent in each individual, there must arise just that conception of Deity best adapted to the needs of the case.” “All are good for their times and places.” “All were beneficent in their effects on those who held them.” It would be hard to quote from the records of theory-making an example of more complete indifference to acknowledged facts than these quotations set forth. [239-1] _De Veritate_, p. 216. [241-1] August Neander, _Geschichte der Christlichen Religion und Kirche_, Bd. i., ss. 160, 346. (Gotha, 1856.) St. Clement’s description of Christ is Τον οψιν αισχρον. Tertullian says: “Nec humanæ honestatis corpus fuit, nedum celestis claritatis.” [243-1] Novalis, _Schriften_, B. i., s. 244. [244-1] A. Bain, _The Senses and the Intellect_, p. 607. [245-1] Dr. T. Laycock, _On some Organic Laws of Memory_, in the _Journal of Mental Science_, July, 1875, p. 178. [246-1] Speaking of the mission of the artist, Wilhelm von Humboldt says: “Die ganze Natur, treu und vollständig beobachtet, mit sich hinüber zu tragen, d. h. den Stoff seiner Erfahrungen dem Umfange der Welt gleich zu machen, diese ungeheure Masse einzelner und abgerissener Erscheinungen in eine l’ungetrennte Einheit und ein organisirtes Ganzes zu verwandeln; und dies durch alle die Organe zu thun, die ihm hierzu verliehen sind,--ist das letzte Ziel seines intellectuellen Bemühen.” _Ueber Goethe’s Hermann und Dorothea_, Ab. IV. [246-2] _Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie_, B. I. s. 48. [247-1] _Gesammelte Werke_. Bd. VII., s. 63. [249-1] See this forcibly brought out and abundantly illustrated in the work of M. Coulange, _La Cité Antique_. [249-2] W. von Humboldt, _Gesammelte Werke_. Bd. VII., p. 72. [250-1] H. L. Liddon, Canon of St. Paul’s. _Some Elements of Religion_, p. 84. [251-1] The Chevalier Bunsen completed the moral estimate of the one-man-power, thus acknowledged by Machiavelli, in these words: “Alles Grosse geht aus vom Einzelnen, _aber nur in dem Masse, als dieser das Ich dem Ganzen opfert_.” _Gott in der Geschichte_, Bd. I., s. 38.