Studies in Philosophy And Literature

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: /./- ONALITY AND THE INFINITE. Read To The New Speculative Society, Scotland, March 1875. (JVte Contemporary Review, October 1876.) It is one of the most noticeable facts in the history of opinion that speculative doctrines, which become sharply antagonistic when carried to their legitimate results, are found to har

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monize at the root from which they spring. There, they may even touch each other ; and, in their origin, be no more than a way of throwing emphasis on this or that phase of a mutually accepted fact ; while their developed con- clusions may be as wide as the poles asunder. It has been said that opposite errors have usually a common x-puTot isuoot. It is perhaps truer to affirm that all antagonistic theories take their rise from an underly- ing root of truth. The history of philosophy, which exhibits the ceaseless swing of the pendulum of thought toward opposite sides, ? a movement which we have no reason to wish should ever end, for its cessation would imply the paralysis of the human mind, ? shows how easily differences, which are trivial at their first appearance, develop into distinctive schools of opinion, and how rapidly they are con- firmed by the reaction and antagonism of rival systems. The question, whether the Supreme Being, or ulti- mate Existence within the universe, is in any sense personal?whether it can be legitimately spoken of, and interpreted by us, in the terms in which we speak of, and interpret our own personality, is as old as the discussions of the Eleatics in Greece ; and from Parmenides to Hegel it has been solved in one way, while from the Jewish monotheists, through the entire course of Christian theology, it has been answered in another. If the most recent discussions of the subject in contemporary literature contribute little...

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