concretize

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We have to note, further, the tendency to concretize, as, for example, in many cases in which evil, physical or moral, is regarded as a concrete thing that may be removed bodily from the community. This sort of conception we may suppose to be connected with early psychological theory, according to which anything that affects man is credited with manlike form and power.

Crawford Howell Toy - Introduction to the History of Religions: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV