, or the
cercocheronychous Nick-Senior
, or whatever score or score thousand invisible huge men fear and fancy engender in the brain of ignorance to be hatched by the nightmare of defenceless and self-conscious weakness — these are not the same as, but are
toto genere
diverse from, the
una et unica substantia
of Spinosa, or the World-God of the Stoics.
And each of these again is as diverse from the living Lord God, the creator of heaven and earth. Nay, this equivoque on God is as mischievous as it is illogical: it is the sword and buckler of Deism.