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Updated: June 29, 2025
All speculation on the curly history of religion is apt to end in the endeavour to see how far the conclusions can be made to illustrate the faith of Israel. Thus, the theorist who believes in ancestor-worship as the key of all the creeds will see in Jehovah a developed ancestral ghost, or a kind of fetish-god, attached to a stone perhaps an ancient sepulchral stele of some desert sheikh.
Other theories are contrivances for avoiding the appeal 'to any external standard'; and in substance, therefore, they make the opinion of the individual theorist an ultimate and sufficient reason. Adam Smith by his doctrine of 'sympathy' makes the sentiment of approval itself the ultimate standard. My feeling echoes yours, and reciprocally; each cannot derive authority from the other.
He did no work himself and was a dyspeptic. He tried to force his diet upon us, and he made us as weak as he was. How many reformers there are who are trying to reshape the world to fit their own weakness. I never knew a theorist who wasn't a sick man. To-day we understand that we can't run a motor-car after the gasoline is played out. The burning of the oil in the engine gives the power.
But your true theorist is a man apart: he can withdraw into himself under difficulties. What said one of the breed two thousand years ago? "Media inter praelia semper Sideribus coelique plagis Superisque vacavi." Oh, the great African heart!" said Fullalove after the battle. "By my side he fears no danger.
A visionary, a theorist, an unbalanced mind, with whom affairs seemed to succeed as long as he had luck on his side. And there's no use, don't you see, sir, in attempting to work on our sympathies and excite our commiseration by telling us that he was deceived, that the opposition refused him the necessary grants of men and money.
"Yes, in all that concerned the code." "Well? Well, was not that enough? She did what she could, as long as she could." She leaned far back in the chair, her eyes half shut. "Don't you think as a woman, not as a theorist that Mrs. Anson might at least have come to him when he was dying?" "It would only have been uncomfortable for her. She had no part in his life; she could not feel with him.
He allows that a theorist of this kind, as regards popularly elected chambers, "will be satisfied that experience has shown the best Constitutions to be those in which the popular element is large, and he will readily admit that, as the structure of each society of men slowly alters, it is well to alter and amend the organisation by which this element makes itself felt."
This is the fruitful moment, apparently so sterile, in which character may spring and flower anew; but the mood of abject humility in which the theorist of his own character is plunged and struggles for his lost self-respect is full of deceit for others.
III. In order to prove this point, it is not necessary to consult any medical theorist as to whether or not it is consistent with his preconceived notions that such a mode of transfer should exist.
The theorist propounds a view to which he must convert the world; the philosopher has a rule of life to immediately put into practice. His spirit flashes with a swiftness that can be encircled by no theory. It is his glory to have over and above a new penetrating argument in the mind a new and wonderful vitality in the blood.
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