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. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iv greece and the harmony of opposites The Greek We only half understand the principle of dualism when we remot contrast it with the principle of unity. The spirit that sees both from all events, all characters, all phenomena, as the development and from or symbol of a great conflict between ...
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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. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter iv greece and the harmony of opposites The Greek We only half understand the principle of dualism when we remot contrast it with the principle of unity. The spirit that sees both from all events, all characters, all phenomena, as the development and from or symbol of a great conflict between two fundamental Pantheism, principles is not more antagonistic to the spirit which sees them as the various expression of one, than each is to that which looks with an impartial interest on the whole play of natural impulse, and finds in the struggle of life's opposing forces the appropriate gymnastic for all that is most truly human. It is only on a superficial view that we could suppose this latter spirit an ally of either antagonist against its enemy. According to our point of view, it is either impartially friendly to both or impartially hostile to both. "Life," said the Indian, "is the seeming change in one un'changeable reality; let us neglect what seems and turn to what is." "Life," said the Persian, " is the actual conflict between two deadly foes; let us take part with the good and oppose the evil." In contrast to both of these the Hellene discovered some link with every creed and every impulse which has ever moulded human aspiration and desire; and each succeeding race may recognise a special bequest in the vast legacy. The typical expression of this spirit remains fixed in the brief records of a people which, during its few centuries of pre-eminence, more deeply influenced the intellectual development of humanity than those we have been considering throughout their millenniums of existence. It is the spirit of the artist in all history; it moulds, there fore, the poetry, the art, and the philosophy of the artist people. It does not...
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