THE JOUNRAL OF SPECULATIVE PHILOSOPHY1883 |
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Absolute Spirit Achilles activity Agnosticism B. H. HODGSON become Causa sui causality cause cognition conception consciousness contemplation creation creative Creator critical determined distinction divine doctrine dogmatic dualism element empiricism ence environment essence ethical evolution existence experience external F. B. Sanborn fact faculty feeling finite spirit force freedom Gods Greek Gustav Teichmüller Hegel hence Hero Homer human idea ideal identity Iliad immediate immortality individual form infinite intelligence Kant Kant's knowledge Lectures limited logical conditions Ludgate Hill manifestation matter mediated moral nature noumenon object origin pantheism person phenomena philosophy poem possible present presupposition principle priori pure question rational reality realized reason relation religion sciousness self-activity self-consciousness self-determination selfhood sense sensuous simply soul space sphere syllogism theory Thing-in-itself things thinking thought tion Translated Trojan true truth uncon unity universal vidual whole Zeus
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Page 84 - Indians, equally show that the Fallen man was not at once bereft of all the glories of the sovereign. In that day, when yet "the whole earth was of one lip," man,. in comparison with later generations, " above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower." " High in the midst, exalted as a God,
Page 416 - I know not how to express. . . . After this my sense of divine things gradually increased, and became more and more lively, and had more of that inward sweetness. The appearance of everything was altered; there seemed to be, as it were, a calm, sweet cast or appearance of divine glory
Page 77 - upon her zone ; And morning opes with haste her lids To gaze upon the Pyramids." The monuments of the Elder "World testify to what man has been, known, and done, as cannot be gainsaid. W« need but slightly indicate what volume upon volume of antiquarian
Page 416 - he wrote: I walked abroad alone in a solitary place in my father's pasture, for contemplation. And as I was walking there and looking upon the sky and clouds there came into my mind so sweet a sense of the glorious majesty and grace of God as I know not how to express.
Page 416 - to sit and view the moon for a long time, and in the day spent much time in viewing the clouds and sky, to behold the sweet glory of God in these things; in the mean time singing forth with a low voice
Page 96 - Journal (unpublished).—EDITOR.] The pilgrim oft VII. At dead of night, 'mid his oraison, hears, Aghast, the voice of time disparting towers.—Dyer. There is no world to those who grieve and love.—Landor. Where longs to fall yon rifted spire, As weary of the insulting air; The poet's thought, the warrior's fire, The lover's sighs are sleeping
Page 416 - upon the sky and clouds there came into my mind so sweet a sense of the glorious majesty and grace of God as I know not how to express. . . . After this my sense of divine things gradually increased, and became more and more lively, and had more
Page 417 - said: From my childhood up my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty, in choosing whom he would to eternal life, and rejecting whom he pleased, leaving them eternally to perish, and
Page 85 - Nor appeared less than Archangel ruined, And the excess of glory obscured." In short, men whose personal gifts and splendor of action are hardly exaggerated in the myths of the Grecian gods, whose forms (as Heeren says) Homer and Hesiod fixed forever in the human imagination by the characterizing strokes of their wonderful genius, might not unreasonably have been believed by ordinary men to have been
Page 100 - all night.—Lovelace. As I beheld a winter's evening air, Curl'd in her court false-locks of living hair.—Ibid. Why shouldst thou sweare I am foresworne, Since thine I vow'd to be ? Lady, it is already morn, And 'twas last night I swore to thee That fond impossibility. But