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| The Cairds, for example. In Edward Caird's Glasgow Lectures of 1890-92 passages like thisabound:-"The declaration made in the beginning of the ministry of Jesus that 'the time is fulfilled, and thekingdom of heaven  flights to Hong Kong; is at hand,' passes with scarce a break into the announcement that 'the kingdomof God is among you'; and the importance of this announcement is asserted to be such that itmakes, so to speak, a difference IN KIND between the greatest saints and prophets who livedunder the previous reign of division, and 'the least in the kingdom of heaven.' The highest ideal isbrought close to men and declared to be within their reach, they are called on to be 'perfect as theirFather in heaven is perfect.' The sense of alienation and distance from God which had grown uponthe pious in Israel just in proportion as they had learned to look upon Him as no mere nationaldivinity, but as a God of justice who would punish Israel for its sin as certainly as Edom or Moab,is ; and the typical form of Christian prayer points to the abolitionof the contrast between this world and the next which through all the history of the Jews hadcontinually been growing wider: 'As in heaven, so on earth.' The sense of the division of man from God marketing hk, as a finite being from the Infinite, as weak and sinful from the Omnipotent Goodness, is notindeed lost; but it can no longer overpower the consciousness of oneness. The terms 'Son' and'Father' at once state the opposition and mark its limit. They show that it is not an absoluteopposition, but one which presupposes an indestructible principle of unity, that can and mustbecome a principle of reconciliation." The Evolution of Religion, ii. pp. 146, 147. But philosophers usually profess to give a quasi-logical explanation of the existence of evil,whereas of the general fact of evil in the world, the existence of the selfish, suffering, timorousfinite consciousness, the mind-curers, so far as I am acquainted with them, profess to give nospeculative explanation Evil is empirically there for them as it is for everybody, but the practicalpoint of view predominates, and it would ill agree with the spirit of their system to spend time inworrying over it as a "mystery" or "problem," or in "laying to heart" the lesson of its experience,after the manner of the Evangelicals. Don't reason about it, as Dante says, but give a glance andpass beyond! It is Avidhya, ignorance! something merely to be outgrown and left be hind,transcended and forgotten. Christian Science so-called, the sect of Mrs. Eddy, is the most radicalbranch of mind-cure in its dealings with evil. For it evil is simply a LIE, and any one whomentions it is a liar. The optimistic ideal of duty forbids us to pay it the compliment even ofexplicit attention. Of course, as our next lectures will show us, this is a bad speculative omission,but it is intimately linked with the practical merits of the system we are examining. Why regret aphilosophy of evil, a mind- curer would ask us, if I can put you in possession of a life of good Karson Choi? |
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