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The Bible is pervaded by a sentiment, which is implied everywhere, viz. the intimate sympathy of the Pure and Perfect God with the heart of each faithful worshipper. This is that which is wanting in Greek philosophers, English Deists, German Pantheists, and all formalists.
But here no door needs to be opened; you have just to step straight into the temple of nature, among all the good people worshipping." "There! that is what I was afraid of!" cried Mercy: "you are pantheists!" "Bless my soul, Mercy!" exclaimed Christina; "what do you mean?" "Yes," answered Ian.
And they were always apologising for their God, as if they felt that there was something wrong with him and that he was not quite real. But to the pantheists the real God was so intensely real that, compared with him, being alive was not quite real, it was more like dreaming.
But we have this consolation, that we have creed-articles which we can get by heart, though ignorant of what they mean, and under what these philosophers call a "regulative" religion repeat our paternosters to the end of time. "These be thy gods, O Philosophy!" exclaims Dr. Mansel to the German Pantheists, pointing to the bloodless spectres which they have evoked in place of Christianity.
Even the elements were kindly; an Amplach twin buried under a snowdrift in high altitudes reappeared smilingly in the spring in all its wooden and painted integrity. We were all Pantheists then and believed this implicitly. It was only when exposed to the milder forces of civilization that Mary had anything to fear.
For this purpose a child was often insured in several, even in as many as twenty clubs at once. Details of this character belong, indeed, to the blackest pages in the criminal records of humanity. But, when all is said, it is the inward and innate character of man, this god par excellence of the Pantheists, from which they and everything like them proceed.
"Not knowingly or willingly," answered Charles; "but understand what I mean. But don't let me say more on this point." "Well," said Carlton, after thinking awhile, "I have been accustomed to consider Christianity as the perfection of man as a whole, body, soul, and spirit. Don't misunderstand me. Pantheists say body and intellect, leaving out the moral principle; but I say spirit as well as mind.
Even in the masculine literature of Rome we find numerous passages which are still quoted, with glowing admiration, by the Pantheists of modern times. There is, indeed, but too much reason to believe that the numerous references which occur in the Classics to the existence of one absolute and supreme Being, and which Dr.
And it was against the same Epicurean Atheism that Cudworth contended in his "Intellectual System of the Universe," when he grappled with the objections which had been urged against the doctrine of Providence and the practice of prayer. It is not wonderful that either Atheists or Pantheists should discard the doctrine of Providence, or deny the efficacy of Prayer.
Because it had been a popular movement, it was a popular disappointment; and because it had been a popular movement, its ideal was an image; a particular picture in the imagination. For poor men are almost always particularists; and nobody has ever seen such a thing as a mob of pantheists.
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