“It is permitted to modern philosophy, all swollen up with Bacon's venom, to repeat to us to satiety, to disgust, to nausea, that we make God similar to man; we will reply as many times that is not quite the same thing to say that a man resembles his portrait or that his portrait resembles him.”
"Bacon's Religion," p. 293
An Examination of the Philosophy of Francis Bacon (1836)
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