she is ignorant that this idea was written down by others. Her language is best explained on the ground that she got it in some way, in some written form, from these philosophers. I repeat, she made a great blunder in writing down that sentence and claiming that the idea came by divine revelation.
I may close this point of our discussion by
remarking that whether or not Mrs. Eddy is right
in supposing that God must not be considered in
any sense as one of a series or class, that she
herself evidently is one of a series or class, namely,
the class of pagan philosophers and pantheists
who cannot think of God, or the first principle of
all, as being in any sense limited, of whom the
first and greatest in intellectual acumen was
Plotinus, and the last if not the least is Mary Baker
G. Eddy.
Mrs. Eddy is set against anthropomorphism
or the conception of God as having the form or
nature of man. She thinks this error has done
much harm. Now if anthropomorphism means
that God has a body like man's and only this, then
the doctrine would be bad. But no real thinker
has taught that. Anthropomorphism, as the word
suggests, is the doctrine that God has the likeness
of man. It teaches that God is in some important
respects like man. If God is like man in mind
but not in body then we have an anthropomorphic
conception of God. Since man is like God, being
created in the image of God, as Mrs. Eddy pro-
