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Gone was the downcast eye, the bated breath, the solemn, non-natural voice, the watchful gait, stepping as if he felt responsible for the balance of the moral universe! He walked with a stride, an uplifted open countenance, his face covered with beard, whiskers, and mustache, his voice strong and natural, and, in short, he had put off the New England deacon and become a human being.
It would be just, he says, but hardly perhaps Christian, to fling back the word infidel at the orthodox theologians for their bad literary and scientific criticisms of the Bible and to speak of the torrent of infidelity which pours every Sunday from our pulpits! The corruption of Christianity has been due to theology with its insane licence of affirmation about God, its insane licence of affirmation about immortality; to the hypothesis of a magnified and non-natural man at the head of mankinds and the worlds affairs; and the fancy account of God made up by putting scattered expressions of the Bible together and taking them literally. He chastises with urbane persiflage the knowledge which the orthodox think they possess about the proceedings and plans of God. To think they know what passed in the Council of the
The character of the wife of Bata is a very curious study. The total absence of the affections in her was probably designed as in accord with her non-natural formation, as she could not inherit aught from human parents.
"How should he know" that I was not sly, smooth, artificial, non-natural! he should know by that common manly frankness, if he had it, by which we put confidence in others, till they are proved to have forfeited it; he should know it by my own words in that very sermon, in which I say it is best to be natural, and that reserve is at best but an unpleasant necessity.
But thereby, without perceiving it, we have invalidated all political and social responsibility, and denied that any man can be benefited or injured by any other. Our moral ambition has overleaped itself and carried us into a non-natural world where morality is impotent and unmeaning. Post-rational systems accordingly mark no real advance and offer no genuine solution to spiritual enigmas.
They do not create, which implies shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active for to be active is to call something into act and form but passive, as men in sick dreams. For the super-natural, or something super-added to what we know of nature, they give you the plainly non-natural.
The chaos which had grown up was the natural result of the gradual development of a traditional body of law, in which new cases were met under cover of applying precedents from previous decisions, with the help of reference to the vague body of unwritten or 'common law, and of legal fictions permitting some non-natural interpretation of the old formulæ.
Whether, with a return of promise and an increase of performance, with a variation of styles and an abundance of experiment, there has also been a relapse into the extravagances which we have had in this very book to chronicle as characterising the fiction of exactly a century ago, whether we have had over-luxuriant and non-natural style, attempts to attract by loose morality, novels of purpose, novels of problem, and so forth, and whether the coming age will dismiss much of our most modern work as not superior in literary and inferior in other appeal to the work of Godwin and Lewis, Holcroft and Bage, it is not necessary distinctly to say.
If the Indian, by practising a non-natural art of spirals and zig-zags, cuts himself off "from all possible sources of healthy knowledge or natural delight," to what did the good and healthy Highlander condemn himself by practising the art of the plaid? A spiral may be found in the vine, and a zig-zag in the lightning, but where in nature is the plaid to be found?
But to the primitive savage, who everywhere regards death as non-natural, as accidental and violent, the surviving spirit, however uncertain-tempered and incalculable in its movements, however much to be feared and propitiated, does not command reverence as a being of a superior order. At best it is: "Alas! poor ghost!"
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