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  1. The illusion that natural events and objects
  2. are controlled by human emotions, so that in
  3. some way they express human sorrow or joy.
  4. The phrase was invented by John Ruskin in
  5. Modern Painters describing the ascription of
  6. human feelings to the outside world.
  7.