eidolon

• I caught hold of a marble pillar and managed to resist Emerson's efforts to drag me toward the door. —  The Mummy Case
• Man is essentially an idolater,--that is, in bondage to his imagination,--for there is no more harm in the Greek word eidolon than in the Latin word imago. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
• Man is essentially an idolater, -- that is, in bondage to his imagination, -- for there is no more harm in the Greek word eidolon than in the Latin word imago. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
• But he was too much what he calls his eidolon in one book, "Monsieur le psychologue," and the Psyche he deals with is too often a skinny and spectacled creature -- not the love of Cupid and the mother of Voluptas. [ —  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
• It was a happy choice; my good genius, I suppose, for you see I was already fairly well read in modern science, and these old Greek philosophies set me thinking backwards, unwinding and unlearning, and getting at that eidolon which is not to be found in the mechanical heavens of this age. —  Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies

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