Two Articles from the Princeton Review: Concerning the Transcendental Philosophy of the Germans and of Cousin, and Its Influence on Opinion in this CountryJ. Owen, 1840 - 100 pages |
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Page 66 - The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, but a sweet, natural goodness, a goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow.
Page 70 - I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
Page 65 - The stationariness of religion; the assumption that the age of inspiration is past, that the Bible is closed; the fear of degrading the character of Jesus by representing him as a man; indicate with sufficient clearness the falsehood of our theology!!!
Page 36 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new World ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite Abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...
Page 24 - NATUR-PHILOSOPHIE," and the " SYSTEM DES TRANSCENDENTALEN iDEALisMus," I first found a genial coincidence with much that I had toiled out for myself, and a powerful assistance in what I had yet to do.
Page 65 - Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told : somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas ; sometimes with chisel on stone ; sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded ; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music ; but clearest and most permanent, in words.
Page 58 - A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 38 - He is cause, and cause only so far as He is substance, that is to say, being absolute cause, one and many, eternity and time, space and number, essence and life, indivisibility and totality, principle, end, and centre, at the summit of Being and at its lowest degree, infinite and finite together...
Page 65 - In how many churches, by how many prophets, tell me, is man made sensible that he is an infinite Soul ; that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind; that he is drinking forever the soul of God...
Page 44 - The whole universe is the Creator, proceeds from the Creator, exists in him, and returns to him. The ignorant assert that the universe, in the beginning, did not exist in its author, and that it was created out of nothing.