The Question of Terms Simplified Or the Meanings of Shan Ling And Ti in Chin
The Question of Terms Simplified Or the Meanings of Shan Ling And Ti in Chin
John Chalmers
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The last statement will be discussed in next chapter. The other two will probably not be disputed. Shan is used where we should say "genius" in the personal sense. One rnan is a "flower-genius '' because he excels in the cultivation of flowers (328) ; another is a "tea- genius 1 ' because he wrote three volumes on tea (329), a third is a " genius of strong drink " be- cause of his extraordinary capacity for it (330), These are metaphoric uses of shan which decide nothing as to its being " god "... or " spirit/' Spiritual and intelligent things. To this class I refer the grosser kind of things which are so de- signated. To the vulgar mind aerial beings are SPIRITUAL AND INTELLIGENT THINGS. 49 pure spirits. - Of course it is only a question of de- gree, where there is no recognition of spirit as an essence entirely distinct from matter. Let us not shrink from the fact. Every body, be he Jew or Gentile, who has not clearly made up his mind, that "a spirit" is a being independent of matter and distinct from it, so that he would be a complete per- sonal being if all that is called matter (air, ether, and imponderable media included) were annihilated, must think of God himself as in some respect mate- rial.
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