Critical Miscellanies, By John Morley 1
Critical Miscellanies, By John Morley 1
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There was a great car drawn by milk-white oxen; in the front were ranged sheaves of golden grain, while at the back shepherds and shep- herdesses posed with scenic graces. The whole mum- mery was pagan. It was a bringing back of Cerealia and Thesmophoria to earth. It stands as the most disgusting and contemptible anachronism in history.
The famous republican Calendar, with its Prairials and Germinals, its Ventoses and Pluvioses, was an anachronism of the same kind, though it was less despicable... in its manifestation. Its philosophic base was just as retrograde and out of season as the fooleries of the Feast of the Supreme Being. The association of worship and sacredness with the fruits of the earth, with the forces of nature, with the power and variety of the elements, could only be sincere so long as men really thought of all these things as animated each by a special will of its own. Such an association became mere charlatanry, when knowledge once passed into the positive stage. How could men go back to adore an outer world, after they had found out the secret that it is a mere huge group of phenomena, following fixed courses, and not obeying spontaneous and un- accountable volitions of their own 1 And what could be more puerile than the fanciful connection of the Supreme Being with a pastoral simplicity of life) This simplicity was gone, irrecoverably gone, with 104 ROBESPIERRE.
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There was a great car drawn by milk-white oxen; in the front were ranged sheaves of golden grain, while at the back shepherds and shep- herdesses posed with scenic graces. The whole mum- mery was pagan. It was a bringing back of Cerealia and Thesmophoria to earth. It stands as the most disgusting and contemptible anachronism in history.
The famous republican Calendar, with its Prairials and Germinals, its Ventoses and Pluvioses, was an anachronism of the same kind, though it was less despicable... in its manifestation. Its philosophic base was just as retrograde and out of season as the fooleries of the Feast of the Supreme Being. The association of worship and sacredness with the fruits of the earth, with the forces of nature, with the power and variety of the elements, could only be sincere so long as men really thought of all these things as animated each by a special will of its own. Such an association became mere charlatanry, when knowledge once passed into the positive stage. How could men go back to adore an outer world, after they had found out the secret that it is a mere huge group of phenomena, following fixed courses, and not obeying spontaneous and un- accountable volitions of their own 1 And what could be more puerile than the fanciful connection of the Supreme Being with a pastoral simplicity of life) This simplicity was gone, irrecoverably gone, with 104 ROBESPIERRE.
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