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) . ”
