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have wished him to speak. That one sentence expresses the whole object of their philosophy. But to that PantaenusOrigenClementand Augustine would have answered: "And weon the other handassert that the God which is in the universeis the same as the God which is in youand is striving to bring you into harmony with Himself." There is the experimentum crucis. There is the vast gulf between the Christian and the Heathen schools which when any man had overleapedthe whole problem of the universe was from that moment inverted. With Plotinus and his school man is seeking for God: with Clement and hisGod is seeking for man. With the formerGod is passiveand man active: with the latterGod is active man is passive--passivethat isin so far as his business is to listen when he is spoken toto look at the light which is unveiled to himto submit himself to the inward laws which he feels reproving and checking him at every turnas Socrates was reproved and checked by his inward Daemon. Whether of these two theorems gives the higher conception either of the Divine Beingor of manI leave it for you to judge. To those old Alexandrian Christiansa being who was not seeking after every s jordan hillsyilai:nike heels for women |
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