Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 32

PanifieisirCs Destruction of Boundaries.

This has been accomplished. Von Stahl confines absolute riglit within the boundaries of our human economy, and does not see ]io\v it has its primordial rise in religion, and how all ethical right is rooted in this rehgiuus right of God over his creature. All this

the result of Kant's partially correct endeavor to

is

in-

terpret right as the shield of liberty, or of Fichte's effort to assign its rise to

With

the struggle between the double ego.

Ilegel,

put down as a morality of a lower order. According to Ihering it is born from an " end-impulse of society." In Darwin fashion it is reconstructed by others as the mechanical

therefore,

it is

product of historic and external factors

;

while the later Herbart-

which the seaman pours upon But, the seething waves for the salvation of ship and crew.

ians perceive

as the cruse of oil

it

endless as these representations of the oi'igin of right

the idea

is

common

to

them

all

that

it is

may

be,

only by the State, as

the instrument of society, that absolute right receives its sanction. It is too bad that, with the exception of Von Stahl, none of these

men

hold to the immutability of State authority. The is swayed now by one party and again by

scepter of authority

—

Napoleon is superseded by Bourbon, Bourbon overcome by Orleans and in this wise is formed the series of those who make themselves master in turn of authority in the State,

another

;

because for a the State stronger

v.-hilc

they are the stronger,

lie therefore rules

who actually gets the power in hand and in this one who establishes right and law, the right of the ;

stronger triumphs, not merely de facto, but likewise in theory. And by this the boundary falls away which separates the au-

powers ordained of God, from the people, who, by the same God, are appointed to be subject unto them. Both thorities, as the

The State takes are dissolved in the one all-sufficient State. the place of God. The State becomes the highest power, and the fountain head also of right. The higher powers exist no longer for the sake of sin ; but a State is the highest ideal of human society a State, before whose apotheosis every knee

—

must bow, by whose grace alone we live, and to whose word all must be subject. And when in this wise the boundaries are destroyed between the authorities and the people, between the authorities and Ilim whoso servant they are, and consequently between right as a divine ordiiumce and right as a magisterial command, nothing remains but the one single State, making

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