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Modern Atheism; Under Its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
Modern Atheism Under Its Forms of Pantheism Materialism Secularism Development and Natural Laws Author:James Buchanan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Original Publisher: Gould and Lincoln Subjects: Atheism History / General Law / Natural Law Religion / Atheism Religion / Theology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When... more » you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECTION III. IDEAL PANTHEISM. We have already seen that the system of Spinoza equally recognized the two " attributes " of extension and thought, and the two corresponding " modes " of body and soul, in connection with the one infinite and eternal " Substance." We have also seen that most of his followers have taken a one-sided view of the subject, and have either merged the spiritual into the corporeal, so as to educe a Material or Hylozoic Pantheism, or have virtually annihilated the material by resolving it into the mental, so as to educe a system of Ideal or Spiritual Pantheism. " In Spinoza," says Mr. Morell, " we see the model upon which the modern Idealists of Germany have renewed their search into the absolute ground of all phenomena;" and there can be no doubt that his speculations contain the germ of Ideal as well as of Material Pantheism. The historical filiation of modern Pantheism cannot be satisfactorily explained, in either of its two forms, without reference to his writings; and yet its precise character, as it is developed in more recent systems, demands for its full elucidation some knowledge of the course and progress of philosophical speculation in the interval which elapsed between the death of Spinoza and the subsequent developments of his theory. We cannot here attempt to trace the history of German Idealism, from its source in the writings of Leibnitz, through the logical school of Wolfius and his successors, till it reached its culminating p...« less