111), "certain religious sentiments that I could not efface; certain religious beliefs or tendencies, of which I could not divest myself.

I regarded them as a law of my nature, as natural to man, as the noblest part of our nature, and as such I cherished them; _but as the expression in me of an objective world, I seldom pondered them._ I found them universal, manifesting themselves, in some form, wherever man is found; but I received them, _or supposed I received them,_ on the authority of humanity or human nature, and professed to hold no religion except that of humanity.

I had become a believer in humanity, and put humanity in the place of God.

The only God I recognized was the divine in man, the divinity of humanity, one alike with God and with man, which I supposed to be the real meaning of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation, the mystery of Emmanuel, or God with us--God manifest in the flesh.

There may be an unmanifested God, and certainly is; but the only God who exists for us is the God in man, the active and living principle of human nature.
"I regarded Jesus Christ as divine in the sense in which all men are divine, and human in the sense in which all men are human.