Tennyson's line, which Neville uses in about twenty-three lectures as the whole justification of the Bible's form. We understand best not bare truths but thoughts put into stories; man insists on seeing the truth, so the authors presented it in such a manner that we could see it. The corollary is the damage: over the years man has mistakenly taken personifications for persons, mistaken the vehicle that conveys the message for the message, and taken the gross first-sense for the ultimate sense intended - so that today we have idols made out of the personifications of truth. That is the complaint M70 carries; this motif carries the defence of the method itself, which Neville needs because he is doing the same thing from the platform. He personifies the Way, personifies life, personifies truth, and they take on human characteristics - and at the same time warns that if you insist on seeing a Jesus other than yourself you are going to see another.