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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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