Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 16
Pantheism's Destruction of Boundaries. proof is far from coin|>leto, tliat it is still incomplete inTi^ domain of nature and let us add that for spiritual purposes it tinds no supjiort for a single point. J>ut says he repeatedly, ;
"This, therefore, shakes not It follows, therefore, that
we
my
faith in the evolution theory."
are not dealing with a comj)ulsory
theorem, which has beeuconclusively demonstrated, but with an Avhicli is supported by a most defective induction,
hypothesis
whose general
ap])lause takes root not in inco'.itestable facts, and complete proof, but in a general mood of spirits since Darwin's theory ])laces before our learned and civilized
much
less in
;
public a solution of the world problem which responds to
And
most secret sympathies. of our age
and that
pantheistic,
is
if it is
known
its
that the keynote
in the evolution theory there
appears one of the richest thoughts of pantheism, namely, that of the ever-continuing process, in its most attractive form, is tlien the assertion too bold,
that in the Descendenz-theorie
f :>und, as its chief motive, the impulsive force of
Or, to probe the real motive deeper
still,
is
pantheism?
in the evolution
even as in pantheism, hides the desire of the -human heart to rid itself of God. In spite of his iiractische Ytrnunft it was this desire which actuated Kant, of whom Baader correctly wrote "The fiuidaniental error of his philosophy is that man is autonomous and spontaneous, as if he possessed reason of himself for it transforms man to a god, and so becomes panAnd Feuerbach uttered merely the consequence of theistic." this system whon ho said, "God was my iirst thought, reason ray second, and man my third and last thought. The subject tlieoiT,
:
;
of the
Godhead
man;" and by
is
reason, but
the
subject of
the reason
is
these words he likewise expressed the deepest
thought of our age.
Buchner, himself an avowed
atheist,
frankly declares that, even more than that of Lamarck, Darwin's theory opinion.
is
purely atheistic
For what advantage
;
and we heartily agree with is it
that
we
the law of causality without a break back to the
nebula and
first
gaseous
when behind this cell or germ the inof a creative God still demands our recognition, our thiid<ing we strike upon the very rock to
cell
explicable act
this
trace the course of
or germ,
and with all evade which the whole theory M'as invented ? If it be true, therefore, that the Moses der modernen Freigeister, as Feuerbach calls Spinoza, lias not led us into the promised land of 35
— FIFTU SEUIKS, VOL.
IX.
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Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 januari 1893
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 44 Pagina's
Bekijk de hele uitgave van zondag 1 januari 1893
Abraham Kuyper Collection | 44 Pagina's