The highest object to which the religious emotions of any people are directed, constitutes their God. When their notions concerning that object are combined with the religious emotions, the object becomes sacred, is hallowed and adored; and these opinions become the grand foundation of the rest of their faith. The natural mental process by which ideas of God have been formed appears to be the following. The faculties of Wonder and Veneration give us a tendency intuitively to believe in a supernatural cause of the remarkable phenomena of nature which we see and feel, but cannot comprehend. The faculties of Individuality and Imitation prompt us intuitively to personify abstract ideas and active powers. The Greeks and Romans, unable to account scientifically for the cause of the winds, ascribed it to a supernatural power, personified it, and called it Æolus, or the God of the Winds. Roused to admiration by the teeming fertility of the soil, and unable to comprehend its cause, they attributed it also to a supernatural power, and personified it; and as, in the animal economy, the producer is feminine, they were led by analogy to invest it with this sex; hence arose the Goddess Ceres. These nations multiplied deities to represent the causes of all the interesting and impressive phenomena of nature of which they could give no other account, including human passions, emotions, and intellectual powers.