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Show being, and the evidence of the world's being. The one is perfect; the other, incapable of any assurance; the mind is a part o the nature of things; the world is a divin dream, from which we may presentl awake to the glories and certainties o day. Idealism is a hypothesis to accoun for nature by other principles than thos of carpentry and chemistry. Yet, if it onl deny the existence of matter, it does no satisfy the demands of the spirit. It leave God out of me. It leaves me in the splendid labyrinth of my perceptions, to wande without end. Then the heart resists it, because it baulks the affections in denyin substantive being to men and women. Nature is so pervaded with human life, tha there is something of humanity in all, an in every particular. But this theory make nature foreign to me, and does not accoun for that consanguinity which we acknowledge to it Let it stand then, in the present state o our knowledge, mergly as a useful introductory hypothesis, serving to apprize u of the eternal distinction between the sou and the world But when, followin th invisible steps o 7 Digital Image© 2005 Mar iot Li Uni of Utah. All ights reserved |