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Updated: May 13, 2025
The radical point in the new philosophy, as it applies to the human nature in particular, is the pivot on which all turns here, here as elsewhere in the writings of this school, the distinction of 'the double self, the distinction between the particular and private nature, with its unenlightened instincts of passion, humour, will, caprice, that self which is changeful, at war with itself, self-inconsistent, and, therefore, truly, no SELF, since the true self is the principle of identity and immutability, the distinction between that 'private' nature when it is developed instinctively as 'selfishness, and that rational immutable self which is constitutionally present though latent, in all men, and one in them all; that noble special human form which embraces and reconciles in its intention, the private good with the good of that worthier whole whereof we are individually parts and members; 'this is the distinction on which all turns here. For this philosophy refuses, on philosophical grounds, to accept this low, instinctive private nature, in any dressing up of accidental power as the god of its idolatry, in place of that 'divine or angelical nature, which is the perfection of the human form, and the true sovereignty.
From all which it is plain, that this principle of Seceders is neither a reformation nor a revolution principle; let then the impartial world judge whence it came. Seceders, in consequence of their contradictory and self-inconsistent system of principles, declare they cannot swear allegiance to a lawful government.
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