We are told that this force is God, whom we must love and worship and serve.

We want the feeling of nearness to satisfy the craving for love and protection, but our intellect and our reason must also be somewhat satisfied.

We must have some object on which to rest--we cannot always be floating about unsuspended in time and space.
"Then there is some further confusion: Christian philosophers have tried to personify this 'soul of the universe,' for God, they say, thinks and feels and knows.

They try to get a personality without form or bounds or dimentions, but it all ends in vagueness and confusion.

As for me, and I think I am not so different from other men,--for me to be able to think of God, I must have some image of Him.