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The power that the Cause possesses to influence the course of history thus lies not only in the spiritual potency of its message but in the example it provides. “So powerful is the light of unity,” Bahá’u’lláh asserts, “that it can illuminate the whole earth.” The oneness of humankind embodied in the Faith represents, as Shoghi Effendi emphasized, “no mere outburst of ignorant emotionalism or an expression of vague and pious hope”. The organic unity of the body of believers—and the Administrative Order that makes it possible—are evidences of what Shoghi Effendi termed “the society-building power which their Faith possesses.” As the Cause expands and the capacities latent in its Administrative Order become ever more apparent, it will increasingly attract the attention of leaders of thought, inspiring progressive minds with confidence that their ideals are ultimately attainable.
One medical authority whose experience enables him to speak with a peculiar degree of authority has pointed out that with epilepsy there is often an exaltation of the religious sentiments. A more recent writer, Dr. Bernard Hollander, asserts that epileptics are "highly religious." Sir T. S. Clouston also points out that strong religious emotionalism often accompanies epilepsy.
You would not believe what a mood I had by this time been worked into by my rampant and raging vanity and emotionalism and by his snake-like charming. "Thank you," I said, with an energetic warmth that must have secretly amused him mightily.
In answer to Plato's second objection to poetry, that it encourages unrestrained emotionalism, Aristotle propounded his theory of katharsis. "Tragedy," he says, "is an imitation of an action ... through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions."
For her age hardly more than twenty-two she was strikingly mature of face, and self-reliant. She had, he concluded, unusual strength of purpose; she was capable of large emotionalism, but mere feeling would never cloud her mind. "Yes," he answered her; "I can do that. I will." "Ah," she breathed, some of the tenseness going out of her, "you are very good!" "And you will help me, of course."
Where judges sob like children, and jurors swoon away with emotionalism; where floods of bombast go to the courts, and listen! take the place of cross-examination and duly-sworn affidavits; where perjury is a humanly venial and almost praiseworthy failing how shall the code, defective as it is, be administered? Rhetoric, and rhetoric alone, sways the decision of the courts.
Also, having marked a period of spiritual stir, I shall look, not far off, for its manifestation in significant form. But the stir must be spiritual and genuine; a swirl of emotionalism or political frenzy will provoke nothing fine. How far in any particular age the production of art is stimulated by general exaltation, or general exaltation by works of art, is a question hardly to be decided.
Moreover our life has probably become cooler, there is less emotionalism, less sentimentality, more business-like attitude, and that all means less inner friction and excitement; in public life too, less fear of war and less religious struggle. All has become a question of administration and efficiency. Our time is certainly not worse off on the score of neurasthenia than its predecessors.
Other races hold that ideal, of spirituality. When they see and hear a Negro shout, weep and pray and then find that same person uncouth and dirty, they cannot reconcile the two conditions, and so doubt the spiritual element which they call Emotionalism.
She thought she had me, but no! Far away as my thoughts had been, my ears had mechanically retained those last melodious strains, and I answered, promptly, "Latitudinarianism of an unintelligent emotionalism!" One to me! And I returned to my brown study triumphant, and pretty secure against further molestation.
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