Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-12
SwsdsabOfg's Philosophy.
From Lippiucott's Msgazine.I

From Lippincott's Magazine
In what lay the comfort Of Sweden
borg to me? In his philosophy of
Continuity, which he believed with
all his heart, and never for a moment
fOrgOt-in his assurance that the
world is but the shadow and repre-
sentatiOu of another and better, or his
philosophy Of Correspondence
When some child of promise, the
prince Of his house, perishes suddenly,
and you take up your life from that
hour, a dull, unfinished work, bereft
of all mOtive-when the life which
counts itself a failure come to an end
when the man OF thought departs.
with life at sunset and genius at the
zenith, what does il mean2 Why.
to be COn6nUed-that the secret of
this thrilling drama Is to be found in
another world. In the peculiar elo-
qUenCe Of Wilkinson, "Our intrOduc.
tiOns to the mineral, vegetable and
animal worlds, 70 the air and the sun,
is a friendship never to be dissolved.
Stone and bird, wood and animal,
are acquaintance which we meet
with in the spiritual sphere, in our
latest manhood or angelhOOd, equally
as in the dawn of the senses, before
the grave is gained" The child is a
child still, and his education prOgres-
ses.
"0n looking nom some heavenly huL,
Or from the shade o. sain,ly palms,
Or silver reach Of river calms.
DO Thy large eyes behold me suu?"
SWederbOrg will not hear Of sudden
transitions, and the suicide who ViO-
late5 the etiquette Of nature serves out !
his term Of probation in another |
sphere. As the man dies he is resus-
citated. He set at naught the church's |
british legend Of a bodily resurrec- |
ton, and showed forth, for the first |
time, the only true resurrection of a |
spiritual body at death. And he ut |
tered this sublime tenet. "As the 4
love is, 80 the mans" that is, the true, |
body. The aviraciOus |
hangs around the scene of his earthly |
treasure with the instinct of q family |
cat. The idiOsyncracy of a sensualist
s in his casual form, and his features
are resigned to that sole image in his |
mind. He is seen as q monster, with |
a retracted nose. Idiots and insane
are so from the imperfections of the
body, but at death the true body is
Only the beautiful in
soul are beautiful hereafter.
IDEA NIONGERs.
A man who has ideas very far in
advance Of his age wins very little
credit in his own age, and for the
most part does very little practical |
good. The man who is really TO guide
his fellow creatures must in the nature
Of things be In advance of other peO-
pie, but he must not be too far in ad-
vance Of them. He must not be so
Tar in advance Of them that they can
not understand or sympathize with
him. Alike in speculative and prac-
dCal matters, q man who is so far
above his own age as to be out of all
relations with the men with whom
be has to deal, has but little influence,
aud can therefore do but little good.
bis acts, his sayings, his writings
may remain to be wondered at BY q
distant pOsterity; on his own genera
hon they are thrown away. He Is
sure to be Knocked at as an fidea
in many times and places
be Is lucky if he escapes the prison
and the stake. Every moment. intel
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It's pioneers Of this kind, whose influ-
snee, If they have had any, has not
been on their own cOtempOrsrles, but
)n men long after who have heard
heir story or read their writings.
Yet we csDnQt think that such men |
IRE altogether unworthy Of honor; we
an not look upon their premature
wisdom as nothing better than folly.
Take for instance the two BacOns. !
Roger was at least as great a man as
Francis; considering the circum-
tanees Of his time we should be in
lined to say chat he was a much ,
.reater man. But be had little or no
on his age, simply because
.e was so far Ia advance OF it. He
tands an isolated fact to be admired
v a late pOsterity. But ia the ace Of
the world in general had
realty advanced beyond the age Of
Roger. Francis, therefore was not 30
AZ Ia advance Of his age but that there Z
we're other minds who were able to Z
axe up and follow out his teachings.
tOgefs therefore, simply remains the
be glory and shame Of the thirteenth
entury; Francis has been the master 8
Z every age since the seventeenth. Q
More than this, when the time kas a