This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,"--that here, even the poetic light of Greece faded; and here, great Parnassus sunk and vanished away. Here was a spot where the false and true encountered and stood over against each other in simultaneous and very strong contrast, --the old Naturalism, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,"--that here, even the poetic light of Greece faded; and here, great Parnassus sunk and vanished away. Here was a spot where the false and true encountered and stood over against each other in simultaneous and very strong contrast, --the old Naturalism, the quick offspring of doubt, which was the child of sin, and born just without the gate of Eden, --the fear of the power of nature, the determination to disbelieve all but the near, visible, physical, empirical, and to worship nature (or the created world), as containing within itself the original energy, the normal idea, as evolving all things, as divine, --the fallen pantheism of the Godforsaken soul and imagination, whether lighting the hill-top idolatry of Assyrian Baal, or kindling the universal fire of Persia,1 or glooming in the mighty temples of Egypt or India, or playing and flashing in the more beautiful muse and splendid art of the Greeks, --this, in its imbecile, human, and even impure character, stood in Corinth, opposed to the piercing earnestness, spiritual purity, deep joyfulness, ineffable love, and divine stamp and image of the religion of Jesus Christ. The epistle of the inspired tent-maker to this little church at Corinth, which I read near by those three granite columns of the only standing temple, whose very name is lost, exhaled a deeper fulness of the divine life than ever before. The spirit-breathed exhortations to unity, humility, love, dis 1 Herodotus. Clio. B. I. Layard's researches also lead us to suppose that the Persians pantheized more generally and largely than all the other mythologists. trust in mere human wisdom, the spiritual mind, to bringing every thought to the obedience of Christ, to striving after an in...
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