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The theology of the Utopian rulers will be saturated with that same philosophy of uniqueness, that repudiation of anything beyond similarities and practical parallelisms, that saturates all their institutions. They will have analysed exhaustively those fallacies and assumptions that arise between the One and the Many, that have troubled philosophy since philosophy began.
Besides those world-old affinities and primaeval parallelisms, besides those dreamy recollections of its old home in the East, which we have already pointed out, we should expect to find its later history, after the great migration, still more distinctly reflected; to discover heathen gods masked in the garb of Christian saints; and thus to see a proof of our assertion above, that a nation more easily changes the form than the essence of its faith, and clings with a toughness which endures for centuries to what it has once learned to believe.
It would be easy to trace many parallelisms in their prose and poetry, but to have dared to name any man whom we have known in our common life with the seraphic singer of the Nativity and of Paradise is a tribute which seems to savor of audacity. It is hard to conceive of Emerson as "an expert swordsman" like Milton.
Nature always breaks her mould. "I could not help muttering to myself," says Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria, "when the good pastor this morning told me that Klopstock was the German Milton, 'a very German Milton, indeed!!!" and Coleridge's italics and three exclamation points may answer for all parallelisms.
Pliny was a rich source of them. Tyrrell, who wrote: "I am not versed in the literature of the Shakespearian era, and I assumed that the Baconians who put forward the parallelisms had satisfied themselves that the coincidences were peculiar to the writings of the philosopher and the poet. Were I to enter seriously on this point of genius, I should begin by requesting my adversaries to read Mr.
Coincidences there certainly are, but our records are hardly yet long enough to furnish the basis for secure induction. Such parallelisms are merely curious, and entertain the fancy rather than supply precedent for the judgment.
To these sources the Dumbuck forger may have gone for inspiration. Stated without this elegant irony, my opinion is that the parallelism of the figurines and grotesque stone faces of Villa d'Aguiar and of Clyde rather tends to suggest the genuineness of both sets of objects. But this opinion, like my opinion about the Australian and other parallelisms, is no argument against Dr.
Analogy, however, between courses of events is one thing historic parallelisms abound; analogy between the main actors in events is a very different one, and one, moreover, of which few examples can be found.
And here are some favourite methods of conclusion: A mad world, my masters! 'Tis true 'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true. There is much virtue in that 'if. But that, as Mr. Kipling would say, is another story. Si non e' vero, etc. We fancy we recognise here the hand of Mr. Benjamin Trovato. Not less inevitable are such parallelisms as:
War is appropriately called the sword-game. Parallelisms. The repetition of the same ideas in slightly differing form, known as parallelism, is frequent. The author, wishing to make certain ideas emphatic, repeated them with varying phraseology. This passage from the Phoenix shows how repetition emphasizes the absence of disagreeable things:
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