Life, art, and letters of George Inness . n accord withthe universal bond of human sentiment. Science, even un-limited, cannot make a faith any more than it can make asoul. Its truths serve only to confirm. A spiritual sciencemust be an inspiration from or through the religious mindinto the scientific mind. His liberality of thought is expressed in the fol-lowing passage: Its forms [of expression] may be various, but from itscenter comes the true light which lighteth every man thatcometh into the world. If we accept the philosophy that man was made in the im-age and likeness of God, our hope o
Life, art, and letters of George Inness . n accord withthe universal bond of human sentiment. Science, even un-limited, cannot make a faith any more than it can make asoul. Its truths serve only to confirm. A spiritual sciencemust be an inspiration from or through the religious mindinto the scientific mind. His liberality of thought is expressed in the fol-lowing passage: Its forms [of expression] may be various, but from itscenter comes the true light which lighteth every man thatcometh into the world. If we accept the philosophy that man was made in the im-age and likeness of God, our hope of attaining an idea ofGod or the infinite cause for which science is searching is notonly by investigating or classifying material forms, but bysubjecting such classification to laws or principles inherentas the properties or attributes of the reasoning mind. Letus endeavor, then, to clothe or illustrate an idea of the mindor thought in a form fitted to material comprehension byconsidering such idea as a point or center from which are 64. THE BAGLESWOOD PERIOD intellectual radiations, in factj as the reality or truth of a center of motion. Suc-li a point can be considered only m the creation ofbeing itself, which being is in us the affection or touch of life,fi-It as the consciousness of something existing as a substan-tia] entity, which I appreciate as an idea from myself as anactive center of thought, yet my idea proceeds from my pe-culiar affection of form of life, hidden from my understand-ing, partaking of its quality or substance, and from it ra-diates my thought, propelled by the extension of my life,creating in my ultimate act ideas of sensation or convictionof that which is not me, but which confirms me as an individ-ual center, or the idea of selfhood. There was only one subject that I know of thatPage and my father disagreed upon; that subject waswhat they called the middle tone. Now, the middletone was Pages idea. He claimed that the horizonshould be a middle tone:
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