But in course of time these words have lost their force--their meaning has been forgotten--and they have come to be mere proper names, designative but not significative.

Here is material for the perverted imagination to work upon.

A separate being is imagined answering to each of the names; and so the _nomina_ become _numina_.[1112] Many gods are substituted for one; and the idea of God is instantly lowered.

The gods have different spheres.

No god is infinite; none is omnipotent, none omnipresent; therefore none omniscient.