This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... For we instinctively recognise it as the symbol of the spiritual confusion of our own nature. Our faculties and powers, too, of soul, body, and mind, are each good in their place and under law, but in helpless strife and confusion they make spiritual impurity, uncleanness, sin. But the strongest and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... For we instinctively recognise it as the symbol of the spiritual confusion of our own nature. Our faculties and powers, too, of soul, body, and mind, are each good in their place and under law, but in helpless strife and confusion they make spiritual impurity, uncleanness, sin. But the strongest and the truest symbol of sin, the truest because the strongest (for it is impossible to find any symbol strong enough), is death and corruption--death of an organism and putrescence of organic matter. How we turn away from this with disgust and horror! But why? Let us analyze the feeling a little. Certain elements--carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen--under the influence of pure physical and chemical laws, may unite in perfect order, and this interior order may emerge on the surface in crystalline beauty, producing in us only delight. Again: the same elements, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, under the direction of a higher law, the law of life--a higher law subordinating to itself, and using for its own purposes the lower law of chemistry and physics--may combine again in far more complex order to form still higher interior beauty, emerging on the surface in still higher forms of sensuous beauty, the beauty of organic forms, and giving us still higher delight. But that these same elements, after they have been combined to form organic matter, after having been the habitation of life, after having been governed by the higher law of life, and fashioned into higher forms of organic beauty; that they should then-be dragged downward and given up to the lower law of chemistry and physics--that which was intended for the higher law to be given up to the lower law--this is death, this is corruption, putrescence; this affects us only with extremest...
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