. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . ican scholar, who was deeplyfamiliar with German literature, thus sums up thesituation : Hegels system has produced a profoundimpression upon the German mind. The theologicaland philosophical controversies of the day ragearound it. It is reputed to be the most comprehen-sive and analytic of pantheistic schemes. Its authorand some of his discijiles have asserted that it is thesame system, in the form of philosophy, which Chris-tianity gives us in the form of faith. But its presentposition is that of hos


. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . ican scholar, who was deeplyfamiliar with German literature, thus sums up thesituation : Hegels system has produced a profoundimpression upon the German mind. The theologicaland philosophical controversies of the day ragearound it. It is reputed to be the most comprehen-sive and analytic of pantheistic schemes. Its authorand some of his discijiles have asserted that it is thesame system, in the form of philosophy, which Chris-tianity gives us in the form of faith. But its presentposition is that of hostility to Christianity. Pan-theism, let us say in conclusion, is the doctrine of theinfusion of matter with spirit, of a deep intelligenceunderlying and controlling the development of theuniverse, and which is the one reality from whicharise a host of appeaiances. This is diverse fromthe Christian doctrine, which makes God and theuniverse separate entities, but is in near conformitywith the belief, which the majority of theologians nowhold, that God is in all things and moves all


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