Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 11

;

Methodist Review.

Or with more tnown

am

fairness, since I n)yself

turn the laufjh on

witticism from his " Wlia't

do

Over

I

tlio

Xeniun

" :

All

and the One

is

surely a person,

But God, us surely, effect of this

none.

is

irony does not save

the place of one prufessorial head which

monster

at the desk, a

is

which

]\Iarat

all

Then we

rightly designates

dangerous, together with their application,

us.

In

struck off from this

hundred other heads appear,

poisonous, in the lower strata of society. rivative theories,

me

well-

cnre for your scoff,

Tlie profoHSor

But the deadly

a professor, let

by quoting Goethe's

tlie professoiaite,

in

as

which the

ples themselves are passed by, or covered over, or

equally

obtain de-

doubly princi-

more often

by those wlio write, or sjieak, or act. lecaU the way of example entluisiastic woi'ship of progress. I>y lK»wever much the onward step has been accelerated there is not even surmised to exist

res])ite, never a rest, but a life without a Sabl)ath. no looking backward upon that which lias been done, nor occu[)aiicy, much less enjoyment, of that which has been obtained, i^o new point is reached in the way, but immediately a new start is made from it. It is like the sansenden Gidop in the "Todtcnritt" of Burger's '* Leonore." It is the AVaiidering Jew this time, because of a passion which absorbs and attracts, and not because of an agony of fear which relentIt goes ever forward and farther, ever hastenlessly drives on. ing on ahead, an -Excelsior which may never end. And is the assertion too l>old, that, of every thousand v.ho kce]> pace as well as they can with this hurrying ])rocession, no two discern or

never a

There

is

surmisj the genetical coherence of this feverish progress with tlie avowed jiiirpose of the pantheistic world ? That TruVra Ittl

Koi ovdtv fitvei"

U[) as

is

no longer put as

a pro])osition, Ijut taken

the life motto, until at length the want of an eternal

Sabbath

is

predicated of

God

wittily remarked, has been

liimself,

charmed

and he,

into

"a

too, as Svhiiler

veritable

God

of

prouress."

But enough of

this.

^Vo were not

to treat of Pantlieism in

Therefore we will not even sketch hastily this grasjvelusive Proteus, but focus all our

general, but merely one of

* Everything

is ia

its effects.

prf>ccs3 of

becoming, but nothing

is.

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