Life of Ernest Renan
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What was a belief to the writer of the Revelation ascribed to St. John was still, after nearly eighteen centuries, a faint hope for Ernest Renan.
But if these great possibilities are held to be chimerical, what remains for us poor sons of men to do and to think? Time was when Renan, following Kant in his second Kritik^ believed that the love of goodness and of truth, that the determination of saints, martyrs, and the noble-minded of all ages to sacrifice themselves for what they deemed to be th...e good and the true, testified to the existence of a deity who directly inspired those feelings. For the Renan of the Examen, God has vanished from our universe, though possibly domiciled, more or less nascent, in another. Yet we are not now, as Renan once advised, to accept the epicurean philosophy of the Preacher. Renan's earlier nobleness shows itself again, and he is not to be reproached for his inconsist- ency. We are to be good, and true, and self-sacrificing because the " voices of the universe bid us be good, true, and self-sacrificing, in a language coming from the infinite, perfectly clear in what it commands, obscure in what it promises.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
What was a belief to the writer of the Revelation ascribed to St. John was still, after nearly eighteen centuries, a faint hope for Ernest Renan.
But if these great possibilities are held to be chimerical, what remains for us poor sons of men to do and to think? Time was when Renan, following Kant in his second Kritik^ believed that the love of goodness and of truth, that the determination of saints, martyrs, and the noble-minded of all ages to sacrifice themselves for what they deemed to be th...e good and the true, testified to the existence of a deity who directly inspired those feelings. For the Renan of the Examen, God has vanished from our universe, though possibly domiciled, more or less nascent, in another. Yet we are not now, as Renan once advised, to accept the epicurean philosophy of the Preacher. Renan's earlier nobleness shows itself again, and he is not to be reproached for his inconsist- ency. We are to be good, and true, and self-sacrificing because the " voices of the universe bid us be good, true, and self-sacrificing, in a language coming from the infinite, perfectly clear in what it commands, obscure in what it promises.
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