Development of English Literature and Language By Alfred Hix Welsh
Development of English Literature and Language By Alfred Hix Welsh: "Mind and matter are the polar opposites of the Absolute the first positive the second negative Everything in nature is bipolar Body and spirit are not two separate independent things but are necessary to each other and are only the inward and outward conditions of one and the same being The laws of the moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass So intimate is this relation so identical that man can know the external by self revelation Man carries the world in his head the whole astronomy and chemistry suspended in a thought Because the history of nature is charactered in his brain therefore is he the prophet and discoverer of her secrets This may seem to blot out all distinctions But it avoids alike the anthropomorphism of theistic faiths and the fatalism of the pantheistic God though the substance of the universe is an Intelligence a Will the transcendent Unity in the midst of endless diversity The glory of the One breaks in everywhere The individual is not submerged in the universal We find eternity affirmed in the promise of our faculties A man who has read the works of Plato and Plutarch and Seneca and Kant and Shakespeare"
