[Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by James Buchanan]@TWC D-Link bookModern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws CHAPTER III 5/72
With him God is not a Person, but Personality, which realizes itself in every human consciousness as so many thoughts of one eternal Mind....
Apart from, and out of the world, therefore, there is no God; and so, also, apart from the universal consciousness of man, there is no Divine consciousness or personality. God is with him the whole process of thought, combining in itself the objective movement, as seen in Nature, with the subjective, as seen in Logic; and fully realizing itself only in--the universal spirit of Humanity."[109] We select only two specimens from the recent literature of France; they might be multiplied indefinitely.
Pierre Leroux, the editor of the "Encyclopedie Nouvelle," says, in his "Essay on Humanity," dedicated to the poet Beranger:--"It is the God immanent in the Universe, in Humanity, in each Man, that I adore."-- "The worship of Humanity was the worship of Voltaire."-- "What, is Humanity considered as comprehending all men? Is it something, or is it nothing but an abstraction of our mind? Is Humanity a collective being, or is it nothing but a series of individual men ?"--"Being, or the soul, is eternal by its nature.
Being, or the soul, is infinite by its nature.
Being, or the soul, is permanent and unchangeable by its nature.
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