Lectures Upon the Philosophy of History
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If, therefore, the truths of reason and righteousness are not wrought into this part of the man, it matters not how thoroughly they may have been elaborated, by the Creator's act, into * It is a maxim of the lynx-eyed Aristotle, that " mere intellect moves nothing;" diavoia S' avrr] ovSey Kivii . Ethics, vi. 5.
That radical movement and transformation must proceed from the prac- tical, in distinction from the theoretic, side of human nature, is the teach- ing of this whole paragraph, as well as... of others, in this system of ethics. The theological doctrine, that no real moral change can bo brought about in humanity, but by the renewal of the idll^ will suggest it- self to the reader in this connection.
THE P II I L O S O 1' 11 Y O F 11 I S T O K Y . 67 the stationary intellectual part of him. For there can be no flexile expansion of a truth of reason or reve- lation, unless it has been assimilated, and absorbed, into the moral and voluntary nature of man. Re- maining in its rigid intellectual form, in the pure the- oretic reason of man, a doctrine of natural, or of revealed, religion, has no more power of pliantly un- folding into feeling and conduct, than a stone has of turning into vegetable matter, merely because it has been caught, and held, in the fork of a rapidly grow- ing tree.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If, therefore, the truths of reason and righteousness are not wrought into this part of the man, it matters not how thoroughly they may have been elaborated, by the Creator's act, into * It is a maxim of the lynx-eyed Aristotle, that " mere intellect moves nothing;" diavoia S' avrr] ovSey Kivii . Ethics, vi. 5.
That radical movement and transformation must proceed from the prac- tical, in distinction from the theoretic, side of human nature, is the teach- ing of this whole paragraph, as well as... of others, in this system of ethics. The theological doctrine, that no real moral change can bo brought about in humanity, but by the renewal of the idll^ will suggest it- self to the reader in this connection.
THE P II I L O S O 1' 11 Y O F 11 I S T O K Y . 67 the stationary intellectual part of him. For there can be no flexile expansion of a truth of reason or reve- lation, unless it has been assimilated, and absorbed, into the moral and voluntary nature of man. Re- maining in its rigid intellectual form, in the pure the- oretic reason of man, a doctrine of natural, or of revealed, religion, has no more power of pliantly un- folding into feeling and conduct, than a stone has of turning into vegetable matter, merely because it has been caught, and held, in the fork of a rapidly grow- ing tree.
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