The Moral Ideal a Historic Study
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The Gods, he urges, are not diffe- rent in different places, they differ only as the names for the sun in different languages. The races which could not understand each other's names for the sun all see the same sun. Osiris and Bacchus are not different beings any more than the sun which shines in Egypt is different from the sun which shines in Greece.^ And then, further, Bacchus, Osiris, and all their kindred are but var3ang aspects of the one Invisible God, who shall become the Guide and King... of men when they are deli- vered from the prison of the body and migrate into the distant land where He reigns alone.^ While men are yet bound in the chains of material surroundings (he felt) they can discern Him only under these various aspects ; they must express the great truths which they dimly perceive as to His nature under the guise of fragmentary metaphor, which becomes mythology. Those who take Bacchus for wine and Vulcan for flame, he says, make the same mistake as those who confuse the oar with the pilot, or the loom with the weaver ; and those err also who see in nature so many separate agencies, and do not discern that all are at bottom but various aspects of one great primal unity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The Gods, he urges, are not diffe- rent in different places, they differ only as the names for the sun in different languages. The races which could not understand each other's names for the sun all see the same sun. Osiris and Bacchus are not different beings any more than the sun which shines in Egypt is different from the sun which shines in Greece.^ And then, further, Bacchus, Osiris, and all their kindred are but var3ang aspects of the one Invisible God, who shall become the Guide and King... of men when they are deli- vered from the prison of the body and migrate into the distant land where He reigns alone.^ While men are yet bound in the chains of material surroundings (he felt) they can discern Him only under these various aspects ; they must express the great truths which they dimly perceive as to His nature under the guise of fragmentary metaphor, which becomes mythology. Those who take Bacchus for wine and Vulcan for flame, he says, make the same mistake as those who confuse the oar with the pilot, or the loom with the weaver ; and those err also who see in nature so many separate agencies, and do not discern that all are at bottom but various aspects of one great primal unity.
What to read after The Moral Ideal a Historic Study?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Julia Wedgwood to read onlineMoreLess
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