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 234 G. H. HOWISON : IN THE MATTEE OF PEESONAL IDEALISM. life. What offends us in the Spinozistic or other monistic appro- priations of the name God is the evident absence from their Absolute of all the essential moral qualities. In these it is that true Deity lies; and all God's metaphysical attributes must be keyed up to them ; not one of these " natural " attributes dare be construed in any way that conflicts with the eternal moral essence. If they have been so construed historically (as indeed they have), genuine theology requires that God's conception shall be relieved of these errors, in order that his true nature may stand revealed a& it is. G. H. HOWISON.