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Updated: May 11, 2025
And yet the divinity-student was a good Christian, and those heathen images which remind one of the childlike fancies of the dying Adrian were only the efforts of his imagination to give shape to the formless and position to the placeless. Neither did his thoughts spread themselves out and link themselves as I have displayed them.
And Boston is the brain of it, and has been any time these hundred years! That's all I claim for Boston, that it is the thinking centre of the continent, and therefore of the planet. And the grand emporium of modesty, said the divinity-student, a little mischievously. Oh, don't talk to me of modesty! answered the Little Gentleman, I 'm past that!
The divinity-student was not quite up to the idea of the commonwealth, as our young friend the Marylander, for instance, understood it. He could not get rid of that notion of private property in truth, with the right to fence it in, and put up a sign-board, thus: He took the young Marylander to task for going to the Church of the Galileans, where he had several times accompanied Iris of late.
So we must not blame the divinity-student, if he was overcome by those yearnings of human sympathy which predominate so much more in the sermons of the Master than in the writings of his successors, and which have made the parable of the Prodigal Son the consolation of mankind, as it has been the stumbling-block of all exclusive doctrines. Pray! said the Little Gentleman.
How pleasant it would be, if in another state of being we could have shapes like our former selves for playthings, we standing outside or inside of them, as we liked, and they being to us just what we used to be to others! I wonder if there will be nothing like what we call "play," after our earthly toys are broken, said the schoolmistress. Hush, said I, what will the divinity-student say?
Yes, and the rocks are different, and the soil is different, and everything that comes out of the soil, from grass up to Indians, is different. And now that the provisional races are dying out What do you mean by the provisional races, Sir? said the divinity-student, interrupting him.
But there are those who want to make private property of everything, and can't make up their minds that people who don't think as they do should claim any interest in that infinite compassion expressed in the central figure of the Christendom which includes us all. The divinity-student expressed a hope before the boarders that he should meet him in heaven.
That's it! that's it! said the Little Gentleman; where the battle of intelligence is fought, there are most minds bruised and broken! We're battling for a faith here, Sir. The divinity-student remarked, that it was rather late in the world's history for men to be looking out for a new faith.
However, I fought this matter with one of our boarders the other day, and I am going to report the conversation. The divinity-student came down, one morning, looking rather more serious than usual. He said little at breakfast-time, but lingered after the others, so that I, who am apt to be long at the table, found myself alone with him.
I should like to ask, said the divinity-student, since we are getting into metaphysics, how you can admit space, if all things are in contact, and how you can admit time, if it is always now to something? I thought it best not to hear this question. I wonder if you know this class of philosophers in books or elsewhere.
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