This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...There are the judgments of our criminal courts. And the same voice which, in the New Testament, depicts for us, the " Judgment Day," gives us the injunction, "Judge not." Can we, in this seemingly disjointed collection of meanings, discover any common principle; anything which unites them, as expressing one ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...There are the judgments of our criminal courts. And the same voice which, in the New Testament, depicts for us, the " Judgment Day," gives us the injunction, "Judge not." Can we, in this seemingly disjointed collection of meanings, discover any common principle; anything which unites them, as expressing one and the same thing? We have got here, we say, an apparent mixture of meanings. In one use our word stands for just a criticism. Our English "critic" and "criticism," it is worth noting, come from the very Greek word which, in the New Testament, carries such awful significances. The same word is used for passing an opinion, and for pronouncing a sentence, and decreeing a penalty. That seems a strange thing. Is the law of language in binding together these apparently distinct and separate ideas guilty of an irrelevancy, of a confusion of terms? No; there is no mistake. When we look deeper into the matter, we shall perceive that language here has conformed, in the strictest way, to the law of life. All these meanings hang together. In studying them, we find, put into the clearest light, what judgment is, and what punishment is, and how the one is related to the other. And so, finally, we may get some kind of answer to our correspondent's question, as to whether "the Day of Judgment is in the far-off future, or whether we are now being judged." What, then, to begin with, is judgment? In its simplest form it is a process which is perpetually going on within ourselves. It is a product of perception and of memory; of seeing and recollecting. When I say, "This is a horse," a double process has gone on within me. First my senses have conveyed to me the impression of a given form. I call that...
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