Pantheism's destruction of boundaries - pagina 10

Pa7ithcisins Destruction of Boundaries. excel

Ilegel

Kant

to

man

far

The Neo-Kantiaiis go back And, to show liow a

wisdom.

in

a few even to Leibnitz.

;

name may espy the genius of the Professor Knauer, of Vienna, proclaims in flattering terms Hobert Ilamerling the greatest of all philosof a very unpoetie

spirit of poetry,

ophers, by whose hand was placed

of her

keystone in the front

tlio

jxilacc.

But

M'ith this the teeth of the

ruminating monster," as Goethe broken.

When recently, in spite of

the socialists held

"ever-gormandizing, everpantheism, are not yet

calls

the interdict of

Van

their electoral meeting, they placed

Roest,

over

words of Opzoomer: "Every citizen, as a member of the commonwealth, has a share in sovereignty." Call this an abuse, if you will, of the professorial dictum, but their entrance these

recognize, at least, that such

of a principle.

It

is

ever the course of the statement

goes out from the desk

but when

;

in the

long been recalled, or weiglicd continues many years in the air of the

halls of the philosophers it has

and found wanting, it lower spheres, exercises its influence upon the special ecienccs, predominates in our text-books, takes the premium in our novels, glitters as tinsel in the daily press, vitiates the unction

of our poets, colors the tone of conversation by Schlagwortcr, and, in the circles of the mediocrity, or of what the call

the "Philisterthnm,"

Germans

altogether subverts public opin-

it

For instance, inspired by Broca and by Von Kiigeli, Darwin admitted in the last edition of his Descent of Man and Origin of Species the insufficiency of his selection theory but second-hand science, in text-book and ]-)ublic school, has ion.

;

not ceased

to

honor

this

defective

selection

theory as the

philosopher's stone. It

means nothing,

therefore, that philosophic pantheism lies

vanquished at the desk

no

less

;

practically

it

works

its

power, both in special studies and real

who would

still

after effects with

life.

A professor

indorse the system of Ilogol as such vronld not

be abreast of his times, and he would be more sharply hit than Ilegel by the irony of the song :

And now

Who And

lie

talks of

never

is

God

in

lis,

transcendent,

all his Iiearcrs

marvel

nnicli

That God'a a German slndcnL

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