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Every one admits the truth of the saying that a lover sees Helen's

beauty on an Ethiop's brow. The man who is standing aside as a

looker-on sees that love is here misplaced, but the lover sees his

Helen all the same and does not see the Ethiop at all. Helen or Ethiop,

the objects of our love are really the centres round which our ideals

become crystallised. What is it that the world commonly worships? Not

certainly this all-embracing, ideally perfect ideal of the supreme

devotee and lover. That ideal which men and women commonly worship is

what is in themselves; every person projects his or her own ideal on

the outside world and kneels before it. That is why we find that men

who are cruel and blood-thirsty conceive of a bloodthirsty God, because

they can only love their own highest ideal. That is why good men have a

very high ideal of God, and their ideal is indeed so very different

from that of others.

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