This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... yet formally repudiate it. As it is the supreme triumph of charity to include the uncharitable within the area it traverses, --to see something good even in the intolerance that is persecuting, and that would if possible extinguish what it cannot comprehend, --so, it is the crowning excellence of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ... yet formally repudiate it. As it is the supreme triumph of charity to include the uncharitable within the area it traverses, --to see something good even in the intolerance that is persecuting, and that would if possible extinguish what it cannot comprehend, --so, it is the crowning excellence of the eclectic spirit that it sees some latent good in the most ontri and distorted system that has ever disfigured the annals of civilization. But in its effort to do justice to every other doctrine, it has not always been just to itself. It has sometimes become a martyr to its own generosity. Hence it has been stigmatized as too mild and diffusive, as the glorification of a weak live-and-let-live system. Many of those who esteem its tendency, despise it as a formulated theory; and while the speculative world refuses permanently to adopt any sectarian theory of knowledge or of life, it has never cordially welcomed the eclectics. It has shown a greater repugnance to acquiesce in this doctrine as the last word of Philosophy, than to adopt those sectarian extremes, which Eclecticism tries to unite and reconcile. How is this? Can it be explained? Yes; the eclectic can explain it. There can be no doubt that, in proportion to the width and elasticity of a system, is its want of fitness as a working theory of knowledge and life--as a doctrine that can be applied to human affairs. So true is the maxim of Goethe, " Thought widens, but lames; action narrows, but animates." This is owing to the fact that all activity is, and must be, carried on in grooves. If we are to work in a world of limitations, we must submit to our limits, and not chafe under them. We may sit apart, Holding no form of creed, But contemplating all; but when we do so, we retire from our...
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