The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-19

providence, which ordinarily works nv IL.
hands of nature mukes use here Of m,
same natural causes to produce the.e a.,
traordnary effects.
From the spoken to the written con.
fession Augustine led the way: to Ana
in publicity all the sacredness OF IA.
confessional" was his nov idea" Th,.
overlies his introspective personaltv
and the literary quality with which !,
was charged, and IL here displayed a.
a representative phenomenon In .
newly developing process OF thoueht
"the recognition, in tho fourth oen.
fury. Of fundamental psychological
| fact. From this recognition we NAV
date the appearance in literature OF IN.
| contestant himself" The word 4, q,
Baconian coinage, ooviating the a,nh,.
guilty OF COMPRESSOR" Tho psycholosi.
cal fact was known and understood LONG
before the science OF psychology WINS
codihed; long before Macbeth asked fon
some sweet oblivious antldote" 4,
cleanse the stuf'd bosom of that peri.
lous stuff which weighs upon the hearth
before Augustine confessed his secrA
self; before the Pope CallEtus and
Origen the Father, before the cvlliza.
tons now called ancient were gu, n.
their swaddling clothes: tho fact that
some folks look in and not out" that
innocent persons often abuse ther
consclences. that there are nageuany
whose whips are the ecstatic suffering
of self-imposed humiliation. The new
thing was a compound OF social sense
literary cacoethes and so much psy-
chology, deliberate or unconscious -
led to the realization that accurate
analysis OF the effect upon himself <
his own religious experience was worth
more, not to himself merely but 20 thu
rest OF the world. than any amount u
dognatic dissertation or scholastic
metaphysics.
The connection between speech and
ideas is nowadays believed to be much
more intimate than the mechanical Re.
! lation that used to satisfy the curious;
Prof. James and Prof. Mueller incline
TO base the whole human intellectual
fabric upon tho faculty Of language
: Before them II was limited as paradox
that speech was the nurse Of thought
instead OF conscious cerehratlon par.
ehting language. But modern study Of
the deaf mute clothes the paradox with
! sense. Suppressed ideas are gas con-
fined, restlessly expansive, seeking out
let even Ivy explosion.
i. What mas introspection done for re-
leion and for literature? Without
!, prejudice deriving from neurotic, de-
/, cadcnt SCHOOLS" with their cutie du
moi. consider In outline the develop.
!, ment. thoughtfully expanded in Gimp
: ter III, an essay on THE 1ntrospec,ive
TYNE" of modern SUFFICIENTLY; intro
. spection so far removed from the ab-
: normal, the sluggish liver type, that
:, even n scientist may be moved to taxi.
u and publish notes Of his own personal.
ity for the better understanding BY
: himself and by others OF the exact
n bearing and value OF his intendedly
d purely objective study OF phenomena
y The conception of dual or multiple per
II sonality IL ancient rudimentary Intro
u spection. The Greeks eidglon had I
y definitely objective entity that mad
e him resent the Sophists definitely sub
II jectlve philosophical conception. The,
V ensphered religion In the self-oon
- seriousness. not In ritual. Now meta
: physIcs is in the vulgar speech: ~
20 lies between mo and my conscience
;, YOU were more frightened than yo
" realized" Mrs. Burr might have con
% densed her whole preachment In hi
I, thirdly" with citation OF tho packe
:, suggestion of tho phrase "selt-r'
= straint."
n Compare Al Ghazznli IN tho WELT
n century and the East with Descarte
re- The oriental. seeking mental indepen
IN ,dcncc, "lnterrogating each dogma IN tur
ne and finding all false, bends aside "A d.
" SPAR to take refuge In that pern"tu'
10 mystery which opens before the inwa'
lr looking eye" He ends with rc.lan'
re upon an Inner vision" superior
ts "the grasp Of intelligence" The Frenc'
ne man. equally at revolt against dorm
Is finds his refuge in method"
In pure" literature Dante and p
trarch are compared. Dante had q
outward looking mind; he Is new
definitely personal he keeps the K'
ma 10 himself hidden. HIS mind was n
-, made of modern stuff" Petr1rch Is (.
IN Irrespective in n literary manner d
10 self-study Is not scientific, he 's SCI
Iar conscious. "The chasm that sepa7at
70. Dante from Petrarch is wider than 2
IN width of years; It is tho gulf heHvc
the ancient and the modern world.
-. Against the evidence roofing intT
NV spoction in morhidlty IN tho cases
be Montaigne. Cardan, Rousseau, ID" 80
,c- ancour, Amiel, the case for healthy
nd trospect!on rests upon "that eXtraor'
mt nary family Of English Quokers' I
nd Gurneys OF Earlhnm. Oscar Wilde
me linked up with Augustine, Des'artes a
,ns Abelnrd.
'he To-day the author sees IN me cour
the geous nationalist" the only idealst p
To- work is only beginning, the Work
hit. devising new symbolism not based up
ect savage survivals, shaping q oocTl
ABB founded not on honor and fear but
hat beauty and security; not on sup'
ia natural revelations or eysteHa On'
ess constructive, universal ethics.
ian Three centuries ago wise and 5000 )oas
yed undx the "trip Of q sAvnge survival
, a their Innocent fellow men TO orusl oea
,ata on no evidence save that OF raTtnt hys'si
Lsss than . century since. the unsfrn'
Erotssque and british conception OF :
nay sonal Devil was allowed TO insult the 81
chic nal face OF things Two hundred YEAR,
.nds a oalious organized selnshnesa wa Prs"''
but as the hishev~ NE a person oould i've
like While this broad minded survey u
ote: offend some illiberel souls II may
,on- read with profit II not always win
and dorsement by those 70 whom suns'a'
the Ia more than forms, But II Ia MOI
hou assault upon forms; It would mol
or criminate but reconcile. And asioe II
/ Ia any bearing upon religious iHe