Natural law, as automatic mind or unconscious intelligence : read at a meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain / by Charles Bray.
- Charles Bray
- Date:
- [1877]
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Credit: Natural law, as automatic mind or unconscious intelligence : read at a meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain / by Charles Bray. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tor), but happiness.” The force out of which this happiness is created centres only in God, He is the Divine Source of it all, and truly and literally “in Him we live and move, and have our being.” Man, contemplating himself as an indi- vidual, necessarily fails to understand the mysteries of his being. Gogito, erg'o sum, is a delusion. The “ Ego ” is a mere form of thought, like space and time: all that we know is that thinking is. The universal Force, which resumes its con- sciousness, thinks in me. Thought and feeling, and the hap- piness of which it forms part, is not individual, but universal. Thus Fichte, whose Ego is no individual Ego, but the universal world-Ego come to consciousness, recognises this view, and consequently he would not say, I think, but it thinks—the universal world-process of thought thinks in me. We are units only of the great aggregate of Sensibility of which God’s being is composed, in which the aggregate of happiness is so great that all pain or evil are obliterated. It is only when we have “laid the meddling senses all asleep” and the force is withdrawn from bodily action “ That with an eye made quiet by the. power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of thing3. When we feel with Shelley that “ The awful shadow of some unseen power Floats tho’ unseen among us; ” And with Thompson that “ All is but the varied God. From seeming evil still educing good, And, better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.” [206]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22443952_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
