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. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... LETTER X. Can it be true, that mystery? True that which we all know, and yet appear not to know? Nay, surely not, it is not true. So deep we have not sunk, to such a level the enlightened Indo-Germanie race, the one of all others fitted for progress, has not yet descended. Read in the huge books how ...
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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. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... LETTER X. Can it be true, that mystery? True that which we all know, and yet appear not to know? Nay, surely not, it is not true. So deep we have not sunk, to such a level the enlightened Indo-Germanie race, the one of all others fitted for progress, has not yet descended. Read in the huge books how much we have achieved. We make the lightning our messenger, count the inconceivably rapid vibrations of the invisible Light-ether: can trace the formation and development of the tiny plant ovule in its matrix, and distinguish a hundred species of animalculss, a thousand individuals of which have room abundant in a water-drop: and we, my fatherly friend? We, whd straighten ourselves up before the simple savage in our vain ignorance, and say to him: --"Wretched being, dull soul, unawakened by the breath of the spirit, we are of other flesh than thy flesh, our blood is other than thy blood." Can it be that these proud ones have not the courage to be true? Yes, that universal mystery is a lie! We believe that the Eternal who fills immeasurable and inconceivable worlds with his existence, who awakens life in the depths of oceans and in the glacier ice: who has bound yon sparkling Sirius in his place and guides my poor body with paternal care; we believe, I say, that this Exalted One, this Ineffable Being--abdicated the throne of the world for a time, and was born an unconscious, puny mortal child of a Jewish woman! Who saw to it that the sun did not become extinguished, that the glorious orbs did not dash together in mad confusion and uproar'? For the Lord of the universe lay upon a cushion and bled: he had been circumcised--is it not so, my father, do we not all believe it, all? Yes! yes! Show me two men who say "yes!" with me, and "yes," and ever...
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