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Show lesson of religion is, "The things that ar seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen are eternal." It puts an affront upo nature It doe tha for th unschooled which philosophy does for Berkeley an Viasa. The uniform language that may b heard in the churches of the most ignorant sects, is,-¢Contemn the unsubstantia shows of the world; they are vanities dreams, shadows, unrealities; seek the re alities of religion.' The devotee flouts nature. Some theosophists have arrived at certain hostility and indignation toward matter a th Manichea an Plotinus They distrusted in themselves any lookin back to these flesh-pots of Egypt. Plotinu was ashamed of his body. In short, the mightall better say of matter, whatMichae Angelo said of external beauty, "it is th frail and weary weed, in which God dresse the soul, which he has called into time. @ It appears that motion, poetry, physica an intellectua science an religion al tend to affect our convictions of the realit of the external world & But I own ther is something ungrateful in expanding to curiously the particulars of the genera proposition, that all culture tends to imbu 7 Digital Image © 200 |