The destination of man, tr. by mrs. Percy Sinnett |
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Page 127 - Death and Birth are but the struggle of Life with itself to assume a more glorious and congenial form.
Page 7 - His spirit was a battle-field, upon which, with, fluctuating fortune and singular intensity, the powers of belief and scepticism waged, from first to last, their unceasing war; and within the compass of his experience are presented to our view most of the great moral and spiritual problems that attach to the condition of our race.
Page 18 - Such is Fichte's phraseology ; with which we need not quarrel. It is his way of naming what I here, by other words, am striving imperfectly to name ; what there is at present no name for...
Page 9 - Let us imagine, for instance, this grain of sand lying some few feet further inland than it actually does. Then must the stormwind that drove it in from the sea-shore have been stronger than it actually was. Then must the preceding state of the atmosphere, by which this wind was occasioned and its degree of strength determined, have been different from what it actually was ; and the previous changes which gave rise to this particular weather ; and so on.
Page 20 - He has an intellect vehement, rugged, irresistible ; crushing in pieces the hardest problems; piercing into the most hidden combinations of things, and grasping the most distant: an imagination vague, sombre, splendid, or appalling; brooding over the abysses of Being; wandering through Infinitude, and summoning before us, in its dim religious light, shapes of brilliancy, solemnity, or terror: a fancy of exuberance literally unexampled...
Page 18 - From this bold and lofty principle the duties of the Literary Man are deduced with scientific precision ; and stated, in all their sacredness and grandeur, with an austere brevity more impressive than any rhetoric. Fichte's metaphysical theory may be called in question, and readily enough misapprehended ; but the sublime stoicism of his sentiments will find some response in many a heart. We must add the...
Page 18 - Fichte's character as it is known and admitted by men of all parties among the Germans, when we say that so robust an intellect...
Page 111 - By the first, the spiritual world bows down to me, and embraces me as one of its members; by the second I raise myself into this world, apprehend it, and re-act upon it.
Page 20 - This is a book which demands and deserves study. Either to translate or to appreciate it, requires a somewhat peculiar turn of mind. Not that any body could read it without profit, but to gain from it all that it is capable of yielding, there must be some aptitude for such studies, and some training- in them too. * * To be appreciated it must be studied, and the study will be well repaid.
Page 13 - Nature which ^ determines what I have been, what I am, and what I shall be ; and the same spirit would be able, from any possible moment of my existence, to discover infallibly what I had previously been, and what I was afterwards to become. All that, at any time, I am and shall be, I am and shall be of absolute necessity; and it is impossible that I should be anything else.