Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 27
^Tcthodlst Review. ceptioii uf
I
vanishes away and wlit-n tlierc
life
no more
is
in any known tnirli, nor in law, which governs lit'ework and who makes God, who calls ns to ii
laitii
the will, nor
in
everytliinii; sub-
Underneath your feet the iountains and from above the rain ])our8 down to soak tlie rise higher, which was once well i^raveled and iirm, and turn it roadbed, into mud, where walkini^ becomes stumblin;^ and slidimrHence the cionplaint, which was never more general than in our days, about the dearth of character, (jf impressive personality, and oi:" men oi ii'on will. In sooth, we need be no "admirers of the pa<t" to stand aggrieved at the dullness of the faces about ns, at their weakness of expression and want of maidy power, in comparison with those porti'aye<l on Uembi-andt's canvases. jN'(., we do not look down with self-conceit upon agnosticism ; and when we hear Tyndall reverently say, "Standing before t!ii«i power which from the universe forces itself upon me, 1 dare not do other than speak poetically (»f a II im, a Spii-it, or even a (.'ause irs mystery overshadows me, but it remains a serve
aceoinpiishnient.
its
;
mystery," then this agnostic reverence touches us more deei)ly than
the
Kantian refrain of God,
and
innnortality.
human
consciousness
virtue,
Ihit forget not that the clearness of
our
the clearness of our thiid-cing becomes dimmed. England science is delined as the statistics of what is measBene docet qui distinqxr^V ured, weighed, and mimbci'ed. is
here at stake
;
In
'•'•
("
He
teaches well
cipline
escape;
who
(Jistinguislies well'')
from which our thinking, i)ut
here the rule
is
if it is
made
to
is
the rnl& of dis-
to be sound,
reaii,
"
/?r;?/'
may
omnia bene permiscet'''' ("He teachco well who mixes all well"). And, as mentioned above, Hegel had to invent logic for this
amalgamating process of thought.
not
docct qui
things a
new
Before this
cloudy manner of thinking the strength of conviction recedes. Everything clothes itself with the garb of modesty, which in re-
naught but hesitation and uncertainty, until in the end its "love glance" upon the notknowing, and Du Bois Reymond proclaims his "?y7ioraZ»/m ?«.?," which is followed by the agnostic axiom of Spencer. In this way it is not merely philosoi)hy that languishes and the horizon of science itself which becomes narrow, but in practical life skepticism takes jwssession again of the human heart and draws the clouds ever thicker across the clearness of our vision, until
ality
is
the thirst for knowledge turns
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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