The antithesis between symbolism and revelation - pagina 14

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Symbolism stands is

or to express

rooted,

chromatic beams, and projecting

movement in itself as its beams reach prism

is

radiating

devoid of color and outline.

is

in

But as soon

existing churches, and pass through the

the

duly

its

Therefore

were related beginning

variegated

be

there

let

in

makes

forms,

no mistake, as

some way or other

of this

poly-

its

The new

mysterious shades.

its

our Christian worship, the refraction sets

of

bolism,

another form, such

in

it

which SymboHsm

the background from

The

century.

if

influence

its

this

and Sym-

in,

new

felt.

religious tide

to the Christian revival of the

Christian

both

revival,

the

in

and Roman Catholic churches, forever famous by the names of D'Aubigne and Vinet, of de Bonald and Chateaubriand, was the result of the horrors of the Napoleonic

Protestant illustrious

and led

oppression,

of

restoration

coming back

Symbolism borrows opposed

boldly

it

harvest the

new

and

set fire to

a

real

With

movement, from which

every

new mystical

this

A

has no connection whatsoever; field

upon which

So much only can be granted,

revival,

but

revoluiioji,

abandoned.

for his salvation.

religious

incentive,

and

was ripening.

Christian

religious

shamefully

and a longing

the its

it,

no

been

Christ,

therefore

revival

this

was

This

what had to

mind from

the awaking of the Christian

to

lethargy.

sinful

its

religious

its

that both

movement,

were a reaction against the ungodliness of the period of Voltaire

and the low vulgarity of the so called "Illumination" of that time

Germany.

in

both

trace

the

except this general antithesis, the garments of

common; and in order rightly to underinherent character of this new religious tide, we have to threefold source from which it originated: The modern

have

stand the

But,

no thread

the

philosophy,

in

historical

and the

school,

aesthetical

development

of our times. First

there

was

which

Schelling,

the in

its

splendid

and systematical conception, gration life

and

to

German

new

felt

philosophy,

from

Kant

to

enthusiasm for organic oneness

painfully offended

by the

disinte-

which the French revolution had submitted our entire

thought.

famous so-called

There was

in the

historical school, of

second place the

rise

of the

Niebuhr and de Savigny, which

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