Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 7
Methodist Review.
AuT.
IT.
— PANTHEISM'S
DESTRUCTION OF BOUNDA-
RIES.— PAKT
I.*
It is not our desire to be classed \vitli tliose wlio luive no good word for puntlieisui in any form. The difference between our age and the age which preceded it is too deeply marked for this. Then it was deism, cold. and grave a ration;
alism whicii withered the spirit
every hand;
;
a conventional affectation
of society such
a state
as
exists in
on
the wait-
ing-room of the house of one dead, inanimate and weaned from every ideal. In its place we have now an age full of animation and thrift; a inuling and a fermentation of all the elements of society
;
a spirit to dai-e everything, together with
development of power which is astonishing. Were ours tlu; choice, therefore, between frozen deism, which causes the blood at length to coagulate in the veins, and this melting pantheism, which from the midst of a tropical wealth commnnicates to the soul a thrill of its own delight, there would be no room for hesitation. In India we should have been Buddhists, and perhaps have approved the Vedas. In China we should have preferred the system of Lao-Tse to that of Confucius, and in Japan we should have turned our back upon the official Shinto, that wo might share the hardships of the oppressed priests of Buddha. Fordo not forget that the deepest trait of pantheism consists of a false love; a love which, it must be allowed, steps across appointed boundaries, but which, even in thisialse and unrighteous form, is born, nevertheless, from the motive of love. It repels not, but it attracts. Its purpose is to unite, and not to separate. Call
it
spiritual adultery, but adultery, nevertheless,
born of
outcome of homesickness and of the For all pantheism is religious pantheism
affectioiuite inclination, the
pathos of sympathy.
and only later on is cryi-tallizcd into a philosophic sysand only by its degenerating effect does it work its prac-
at first,
tem
;
Copyright, 1803, by J. Ilendrik de Vries. [Tlio
above
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nriiele, althou^li
the
i):i;,ns
ii
truiislation, is
of iho liiu-iiw.
As
is
of such a quality as to render well known,
its aiiilior is
it
u dislin-
lliu evan^eliail oilliodox inovcment f)f the Reformed Cimrcli and as the article in the orijj:inal is accessible to bnl few American readers we have accepted for pnblicaliou the following admirable translation by
frnislicii
in
leader in
Ildlland;
the Uov. Mr. do Vriea.
—
Ki).
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