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Anthropomorphism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠forgivable when we use divine attributes to determine our own will rather than to describe God — we name the cause after its effect, nothing more.

Anthropomorphism (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the symbolic kind concerns only language, not the object: we ascribe human properties not to God but to God's relation to the world.

Anthropomorphism (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a subtle kind is permitted in thinking the world-cause in the idea — understanding, liking, desire, will — because without it nothing at all could be thought about it.

Anthropomorphism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠inseparable from theism and makes it self-contradictory — yet remove it and theism falls, leaving only a deism of no use to religion or morals.

Anthropomorphism (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the source of superstition: the seeming expansion of ideas like God through supposed experience, just as fanaticism promises it through suprasensible intuition or feelings.