Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 34
PantheisrrCs Destruction of Boundaries. tljcii
you are
thu sun
Then
uiidoiie.
lias set
tliesc
people,
armed by you, before
uj)on that day of ven<ijeaiicc shall with a
siiiirle
stroke dispel your enchanting power, and, while crushing j'ou to
the earth, proclaim that
a
has
all
it
become
loud and far that boundaries are no more, evolution, and that they but inaugni-ate
movement which could
Max
not fail in your pantheistic process!
Mlillcr once sketched the nirvayia of the yoga in the
picture of a
lamp which was being extinguished.
a social nirvana
we
see
shall
l\)ward sucli
the nations of Enrope move,
unless something be done to stop the weakening of boundaries. "VYhen, in the
human
body, the boundary
is
distnrbed between
the tissue of the veins and the flesh of the muscles, then, with
an avdyK-q (necessity) which
is irresistible,
there follows the de-
composition of the corpse.
France was not saved twenty years ago by the injudicious supply of arms to the mob, nor by Grnnbetta's wild hue and cry that not an inch of ground nor a stone of the stronghold
No
should be surrendered. iron network with which
escape was possible through the
Yon Moltke
had invested France, and town of Frankfort the Gaul capitulated. But this did not flnish France; for when, at length, it wisely took copy from Prussia's" example after the battle at Jena, and in the old imperial
chauvinism and exerted its utmost efforts and recovery of strength, it soon appeared possessed of so nnich energy of national life that Germany's emperor already feels uneasy and has called out ninety thousand more men per annum for the better protection of his frontiers. Is there no lesson in this for us, when, having shown the erasure of boundaries and the dangers which it threatens, forcibly restrained
in
home
we
its
discipline
face the final question,
What
resistance
may we
offer?
In sooth, the j^resent condition of believing Christianity is very like that of France after Sedan and Gravelotte. The assault made upon us has nv)t been successfully beaten off in
any single
point.
Stronghold after stronghold has been aban-
doned.
Treaso!! has been committed, time after time, within
our own
rardcs.
Intoxicated with transports of
prophesies the near
he
is
quite correct.
dawn
jo\',
the
enemy
of the day of our entire defeat.
"With shame
And
we must ackn()wledge
the
cowardliness and lamentable want of tact which have charactc!"ized our Christian conduct during these last
hundred years
in
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