The God who Found Himself Or the God of Science and the Illusion of Self: An Interpretation of the Philosophy, Religion, and Ethics of a Rational and Scientific MonismSherman, French, 1914 - 176 pages |
Other editions - View all
The God Who Found Himself Or the God of Science and the Illusion of Self: An ... Alfred Ward Smith No preview available - 2021 |
Common terms and phrases
absolutely abstrac abstraction all-inclusive altruism atoms attributes believe blind blind illusion bona fide brain cells completely compound conceive concrete consciousness corpuscles cosmic body cosmic organism cosmos destroyed differentiated divine democracy dualistic earth electrical energy entity eternal ethics evolution evolutionary exist fact finite flow fractional ganism genuine God's godlike Harald Hoffding Hence Herbert Spencer illusion indivisible infinite integral intelligence kind king knowledge living logical man's matter mental merely metazoa molecules monism multiform multiple nature ness never objects organ and function panpsychism Paul Carus perfect perfectly personality planets pluralistic plurality possible primal ether Prof psychic pure reality realize reproduce says scientific sciousness self-knowledge self-realization selfishness sense separate single social mind society of minds society of souls soul spiritual individuality stream stream of consciousness subjectivity superstition supreme theonomy things Thou tion to-day true truth unit unity universe Vedanta vidual
Popular passages
Page 30 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Page 168 - A fire-mist and a planet, — A crystal and a cell, — A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell ; Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod,— Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.
Page 58 - Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service; two dishes, but to one table: that's the end.
Page 152 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race...
Page 116 - The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Page 59 - Onward and on, the eternal Pan, Who layeth the world's incessant plan, Halteth never in one shape, But forever doth escape, Like wave or flame, into new forms Of gem, and air, of plants, and worms.
Page 99 - For I have learned To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and...
Page 152 - Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and next all human race; Wide and more wide, th...
Page xxiv - Binds it, and makes all error : and, to KNOW, Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Page 60 - The zone that girds the incarnate mind. When the scanty shores are full With Thought's perilous, whirling pool; When frail Nature can no more, Then the Spirit strikes the hour: My servant Death, with solving rite, Pours finite into infinite. Wilt thou freeze love's tidal flow, Whose streams through Nature circling go?