Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sir Kenneth M(Kelpie.—I see you are draw- ing very rapidly towards my view, that we must have always two ways of regarding an eternal development. Now if the visible universe has emerged from a spiritual Unseen extending throughout a past eternity, is it not more natural to couple this with the development of the individual extending onwards and upwards throughout the future ? A similar thought seems to have occurred to Renan, who thus expresses himself in his dialogues and philosophical fragments :— ‘ It is not impossible,’ he tells us, ‘that in the infinitude of time the universe may minister to the perceptions and enjoyments of one single being: thus personal monotheism would be a truth. On this condition it is even possible to conceive the resurrection of individuals. The universe, reduced to one single absolute being, will be the complete life of all—the renewal of beings who have disappeared.’ He has thus, I think, brought before us
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