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judgment on the whole ; what is true of the particular is not true of the whole . Thus , when conscientious thinkers , like the Reverend Thomas Wilson , come forward with their interpretations , they only gain respectful hearing from the very liberal . We have , however , so often argued this point that it need not be re-opened now . Having indicated it , -we refer our readers to the , new Commentary which the Reverend Thomas W"ilson ' and bis coadjutors have published " in frank but respectful antagonism to the Lutheran and Calvinistic theologies of the Middle Ages , no less than to the 3 ? attistic Scholasticism of an earlier period . " He records his conviction of the . . ¦ »* unrighteous risk of much longer holding out the dilapidated citadel of Bibliotrary against ; tie besieging forces of sense and soberness that ^ still offer it honourable terms . It is in opposition to earliest and most cherished associations that I am at length religiously driven , in years of maturest
manhoodv to centre all clerical hope in the anticipation of a reaJlyCathoIic Church , finally exchanging the cramped dogmatism of human Traditions for the ever-expanding Revelations of Divine Truth , as now and henceforth providentially unfolding themselves to the lay intellect of the world we live &' Especially we refer the reader to the Introduction on the Letter and Spirit of Scripture . The Commentary itself , amidst much that is admirable , contains many statements that seejn hazardous and questionable ; but it will make the reader think .
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THEATRICAL NOVELTIES . This week there have been two novelties , but I have not seen them ; kept away by the Destinies—i . e ., Bile and Blighted Affection . The first of these unseen attractions is Married Unmarried , a drama at the Pbincess ' s ,- without Charles ELean . It is a version of la Grand Breteche , which is founded on a novel all readers of Balzac kno-w well . The adapter has , I am told , Tendered it " moral" to suit the pit . The second novelty is a farce at the Adelphi , on the latest coxcombry , The Moustache Movement ; as I never gave in to the coxcombry of wearing moustaches , I shall be able to laugh at this farce ( if funny ) without a twinge of remorse .
Instead of laughing at farces , I have been " improving the sluning how , " as you will see if you read the next article .
THE ORPHIC FRAGMENTS . At last I have read those oracular manuscripts obligingly forwarded by my philosophic admirer Cincinnatus Biggs , 17 . S . I say " read ; ' * as to mastering them , G . B . informs his readers in a preface ( or in his lofty language u the Proem " ) , that years of meditation will barely suffice to apprehend what years of meditation have excogitated , " and you will not be surprised if I am at present somewhat in the dark . A curious collection it is this pile of papers : scraps of verse , groups , of aphorisms , fragments of essays , nowhere anything pretending to be complete . The very titles are what the critics call " quite refreshing . " Thus I find one bundle of papers labelled "Nature : an oration ; another—and this is perfect—" Gtoi : a fragment ; " a third is :. "On Intellections ; * a fourth is : " The Overcoat and Upper Leather : —symbols . "
As an ignoramus I am bound to declare these Orphic utterances profound , magnificent , immense ; but not , perhaps , altogether luminous ! For instance , he tells 11 s "We should synchronise our existences . " Very likely we should ; but how ? " Some men live life in masses , others in detail . Man is the radius of the Infinite . ' I never knew that before . ' Elsewhere he says : " Man is the great Omphalos of the Universe ; " which is -worth knowing , but as when translated into English , it is simply saying , " man is the great navel of the Universe , " I don ' t see what practical conclusions can be deduced from it . The same remark applies to this : " Gr « d is a circle ; man an ellipse . " This is from a fragment entitled "G-eometryof the Infinite , " in which there are some things I don ' t quite understand .
Time and space , the great metaphysical topics , are treated by C . B .-with immense superiority in his fragment On Intellections . Thus , he says , " Time is the Phantasm of Eternity— -the spectral Now , which strikes me as very imposing ; but he is not quite so clear as might be desired on space : " Space , " says Cincinnatus , " is the Logos extensive ; Eternity the Logos intensive . " And I am not quite sure that I follow him when he says that "< Being is the differentiation , of Nothing—the homogeneous Nothing passes by me * tamorphic disintegration into the heterogeneity of Being : whence Light and Darkness : whence also the malleability of Light , the solubility of Darkness . " I seem better to catch his meaning when he says " Nature is dumb ; Philosophy articulate , " only it strikes me that his philosophy might articulate a little more clearly .
All the great writers have given their verdicts on Plato and Aristotle ; was ever anything profounder than this of C . B . ' s ? " Plato ' s mind is archetypal , Aristotle ' s typal . One carries Synthesis as a flaming torch ; the other Analysis as a flaming sword . One illumines , the other cuts . One has Intellections , the other Cognitions . Where Plato knew , Aristotle only cognoze . " This word "cognoze" I take to be an Americanism—the past particle of " cognize ; " does it not strike you as quite a novel criticism to say that Aristotle only cognoze ? This passage , however , is followed by one equally deep but not quite so intelligible . " Type an < l Antitype legislate the universe . Passion is type ; Love antitype . " Ai lie says it is so , I am willing to believe it ; but what does this mean P u Mathematics is the true mathesis—the protoplast of Being ; for Being and Knowing are one . " The following passage has enchanted me , though honestly 1 cannot say that
I clearly understand all it means . " Individuality is precious to all . Mine to me is infinite : hence the sorrowing enfolding of the wings when the soul first descries its exile . For Nature is dumb . She must be animate ere she articulate . Her speech ifl vain babble : it is all outwards . Speech of the soul is inwards : a still small voice fluttering over the impalpable abysses of Contrition and tear-wet Remorse . What therefore is Nature to the Soul but a vogue Outwards that is never a Homewards P The Soul has but one Homewards , and that is
the Inwards , the Infinite . Oxydise a metal as you will , y ° wM not make a Diamond , for the Diamond is and cannot be made . So with the Soul . Li g ht is not malleable to the eye , but only to the mind ; for what is malleability ? Mind rules and reigns . Fact has no existence , but such ns is regally awarded it ^ by Mind ! Hence the ineptitude of Fact-men . Wo must synchronise our existences . " Now , beloved reader , I have complied with the request of Cincinnatus Biggs , and introduced the Orphic Fragments to a thinking public ; what wiU the public think of C . B . ? Vjvian .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 1, 1854, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2032/page/20/
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