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But it will serve our present purpose just to point out a few of the extreme absurdities resulting from the doctrine which Oken seems to hold in common with Hegel, that "to philosophise on Nature is to re-think the great thought of Creation." Here is a sample:
And Frederick continued in a solemn, but for that very reason, roguish manner to philosophise on courage and cowardice. Dinner began, and, though the weather had by no means improved, a comparatively large number of passengers had gathered in the dining-room. Mr.
'Welcome, Claude Mellot, and all lovely enthusiasms and symbolisms! Expound to me, now, the meaning of that water-lily leaf and its grand simple curve, as it lies sleeping there in the back eddy. 'Oh, I am too amused to philosophise. The fair Argemone has just been treating me to her three hundred and sixty-fifth philippic against my unoffending beard.
A priori, therefore, one would have expected that Coleridge's instincts would have led him to rhetorise too much in his diction, to refine too much in his arguments, and to philosophise too much in his reflections, to have hit the popular taste as a journalist, and that at the age of eight-and-twenty he would have been unable to subject these tendencies either to the artistic repression of the maturer writer or to the tactical restraints of the trained advocate.
That is the philosophy which dismisses its technicalities, which finds such words as these when the question of the predominance of powers, and the question of revolution and abhorrence of change in the greater congregations and extensive wholes, comes to be practically handled. This is the way we philosophise 'when we come to particulars.
Long ago people mixed up fact and fiction, their imaginations ran riot and on some very slight foundation often, no doubt, genuine, though slight they built up a very complete and thrilling 'ghost story. Nowadays we consider and philosophise, we want to get to the root and reason of things, and we are more wary of exaggeration.
A remarkable synthesis was thus gradually accomplished, though it will always be a question whether the stronger tendency was to philosophise mythology or to mythologise philosophy. Yet another element was provided by the stream of Oriental religions which were coming into the Empire.
It was only with him that Aristid Kuvalda could philosophise with the certainty of being understood. He valued this, and when the reformed teacher prepared to leave the dosshouse in order to get a corner in town for himself, then Aristid Kuvalda accompanied him so sorrowfully and sadly that it ended, as a rule, in their both getting drunk and spending all their money.
Himself or another, or, worse still, these innocents that could not philosophise about it that any should suffer made all happiness futile. The same deadly consciousness came upon him now on the sunny cliff, and he resented that the topic should have been started, himself keeping a sullen silence. But the Parson turned and spoke directly to him.
The Greek sought after wisdom; he wanted a man who would perorate and argue and dissertate. Paul says, 'No! 'We have nothing to do. We do not come to philosophise and to argue. We come with a message of fact that has occurred, of a Person that has lived. And, as most of you know, the word which he uses means in its full signification, 'to proclaim as a herald does.
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