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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... would confound the part, as a part, with the Whole, as the whole. Nay, in no system is the distinction between the individual and God, between the modification, and the one only substance, more sharply drawn than in that of Spinoza. Jacobi, indeed, relates of Lessing, that after a conversation with him at the house of the poet Gleim (the Tyrtaus and Anacreon of the German Parnassus), in which conversation Lessing had avowed privately to Jacobi his reluctance to admit any personal existence of the Supreme Being, or the possibility of personality except in a finite Intellect, and while they were sitting at table, a shower of rain came on unexpectedly. Gleim expressed his regret at the circumstance, because they had meant to drink their wine in the garden: upon which Lessing, in one of his half-earnest, half-joking moods, nodded to Jacobi, and said, It is I, perhaps, that am doing that. i.e., raining! and Jacobi answered, Or perhaps I: Gleim contented himself with staring at them both, without asking for any explanation. So with regard to this passage. In what sense can the magnificent attributes, above auoted, be appropriated to a child, wh. ch would not make them equally suitable to a bee, or a dog, or afield of corn; or even to a ship, or to the wind and waves that propel it? The omnipresent Spirit works equally in them as in the child; and the child is equally unconscious of it as they. It cannot surely be, that the four lines, immediately following, are to contain the explanation? To whom the grave Is but a lonely bed without the sense or sight Of day or the warm light, A place of thought where we in waiting lie. Surely, it cannot be that this wonder-rousing apostrophe is but a comment on the little poem of We are Seven? that the whole...

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