The Evolution of Religion : the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of St. Andrews in Sessions 1890-91 And 1891-92
The Evolution of Religion : the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of St. Andrews in Sessions 1890-91 And 1891-92
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In any case there can be no doubt that the Grospel and the Epistle are written in the same spirit.
Digitized by VjOOQ IC THE DIVINE AND THE HUMAN, 221 The general idea needs, so to speak, to be em- bodied or incarnated, to be 'made flesh and to dwell among men' in all the fulness of realisation in a finite individuality, before it can be known and appreciated in its universal meaning. And it is only after such individual presentation has pro- duced its effect that reflexion is able to detach th...e idea from accidents of time and place and circum- stance, and present it as a general principle. Even in the case of philosophy itself — which, as it belongs to the reflective stage of consciousness, might seem independent of the personality of its teachers — the same law still partially holds good; for the greatest of all philosophical movements is associated with the life and death of Socrates, the first representa- tive of the subjective principle of thought. Now, in this movement from the individual to the uni- versal the great danger is that the idea should lose in intensity what it gains in generality; that, as it frees itself from local and temporal condi- tions, it should at the same time be deprived of that direct force of appeal to the souls of men which springs from its identification with an indi- vidual who is its organ and living embodiments It is, therefore, of the highest importance that, in spite of the generalising process which necessarily begins so soon as the individual is removed and reflexion is at work upon his memory, the living Digitized by VjOOQ IC 222 THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
In any case there can be no doubt that the Grospel and the Epistle are written in the same spirit.
Digitized by VjOOQ IC THE DIVINE AND THE HUMAN, 221 The general idea needs, so to speak, to be em- bodied or incarnated, to be 'made flesh and to dwell among men' in all the fulness of realisation in a finite individuality, before it can be known and appreciated in its universal meaning. And it is only after such individual presentation has pro- duced its effect that reflexion is able to detach th...e idea from accidents of time and place and circum- stance, and present it as a general principle. Even in the case of philosophy itself — which, as it belongs to the reflective stage of consciousness, might seem independent of the personality of its teachers — the same law still partially holds good; for the greatest of all philosophical movements is associated with the life and death of Socrates, the first representa- tive of the subjective principle of thought. Now, in this movement from the individual to the uni- versal the great danger is that the idea should lose in intensity what it gains in generality; that, as it frees itself from local and temporal condi- tions, it should at the same time be deprived of that direct force of appeal to the souls of men which springs from its identification with an indi- vidual who is its organ and living embodiments It is, therefore, of the highest importance that, in spite of the generalising process which necessarily begins so soon as the individual is removed and reflexion is at work upon his memory, the living Digitized by VjOOQ IC 222 THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
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