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Portrait of Robert Henry Charles Robert Henry Charles 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 15… (1911)

They could not bless their worshippers even in the smallest concerns of life; they were indifferent to moral qualities, and were of less value than the commonest household objects, and finally, “with rare irony, the author compared an idol to a scarecrow (v. 70) , impotent to protect, but deluding to the imagination” (Marshall) .
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