The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 16

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German

philosophical line of great

followed

philosophers.

The

Belvedere and the Venus

by the Apollo

of

the

historical

school

sad

a

and

present,

wisdom of the

came forward

di

And finally

Medici,

Moreover, you remember,

how

QH xai ovdfv nhii was once the watchword of the Stoa

of the

took

itself in

mind

hold of the

and thus, this

the successive stages

as the leading thought,

And

to direct our investigations.

had

;

an uninterrupted historical process,

and developing

manifesting finite,

for the

the navxa

the pantheism of the philosophical school; and the

joined

Infinite

in

home

to justify this aversion to so

encourage a boundless admiration

to

past.

by resolving everything school

school

artistic

the track and supplanted the Cfucifix and Ecce

in

all

this

which

was suggested and

countenanced with such elaborate study, with such an overflowing treasure of detailed proof, in such a splendid style, and with such

a

cogency,

logical

of the

organic

that

unscientific,

raised to the higher level

itself,

became almost

conception,

pantheistic worldview.

deemed

science

indentified

with this

They who dared to oppose it, were simply and, if clever, men willingly insincere, and

guilty deceivers of the people.

In this abstract form, however, this not

from

radiate

the

Anglo-Saxon, as such,

on the

is

the

to

new leading thought could Anglo-Saxon mind. The

neither a born philosopher nor an aesthe-

The German

tical fanatic.

both

German

likes fluttering in the air

wings of idealism; the Anglo-Saxon prefers to stand with

feet firmly

Hence

on the ground.

it

came

to pass that the

Anglo-Saxon world remained almost unaffected by development of real

until

species

Darwin gave

mammal

phenomenal to

finite

man.

has

The

material basis, in the abolition

idea

of the

Infinite

mammal, becoming

by means of a material process, adapted

Anglo-Saxon mind;

modern theory of the the

its

new German

in the vertebrate, the vertebrate in a in

in the finite,

the

it

this

and the uninterrupted process by which the plant

was metamorphosed

and the

itself

and hovering

and from that moment on the

pantheistic relation between the Infinite and

mastered

the

public

rising generation all over the world,

mind,

and encompassed the

sweeping everything before

it.

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