Half Truths And the Truth: Lectures On the Origin And Development of ...
Half Truths And the Truth: Lectures On the Origin And Development of ...
Jacob Merrill Manning
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Given the premise of Descartes, that all truth begins in consciousness ; then allow his method, which is that of mathematical demonstration ; and with these join his limiting of causation to the Deity, and you have all that is essential to Spinozism. The premises of the pan- theistic system were given to it by Descartes ; and from these, as Coleridge has well said, " the deduction is a fvu^ « «^ chain of adamant." Spinoza can be refuted, The prem- ^ ' trfeisraun^ ^^^ ^^® appalling system be sho...wn to be a tenable. basclcss fabric, in very few words. All truth does not begin in consciousness ; the necessities of thought give us a sure standing-place outside of our own conscious thinking. Furthermore, many things which cannot be mathematically demonstrated are nevertheless true. And there are efficient causes in men, if not in nature, which can never be merged into the one great First Cause. We Digitized by Google PANTHEISM. 95 need not fear the might of this sel^reliant Hebrew. He is vulnerable, like the hero of the Iliad.
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