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Show Th happiest man is he who learn fro nature the lesson of worship Of that ineffable essence which we cal Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least ‘We can foresee God in the coarse and, a it were, distant phenomena of matter; bu when we try to define and describe himself, both language and thought desert us and we are as helpless as fools and savages. That essence refuses to be recorde in propositions, but when man has worshipped him intellectually, the nobles ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God. It is the great organ throug which the universal spirit speaks to the in dividual, and strives to lead back the individual to it ‘When we consider Spirit, we see that th views already presented do not include th whole circumference of man & We mus add some related thoughts Three problems are put by nature to th mind What is matter Whenc is it? an ‘Whereto? The first of these questions only the ideal theory answers. Idealism saith matter is a phenomenon Idealism acquaint not a substance us with the total dis parity between the evidence of our ow 7 Digital Imag |
