"The only way to get rid of a philosophic doubt, in its discouraging aspect, is to see that, such as it is, it already implies a larger truth.
The great spirit says to us, like Emerson's Brahma -- They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter AND the doubt. And this, the inevitableness and the true spirtuality of genuine doubting, is the great lesson that the eighteenth century, in its transition to Kant, teaches us. It is a lesson well to be remembered in our own day, when, notwithstanding the vast accomplishments of recent research, there is a sense in which we too live in a world of whirling doubt. But live there, only that we may learn to conquer and possess it. All its doubt. All its certainties. All its truth. In doubt, we come to see our illusion; the phantoms of the night of thought vanish; but the new light comes. The old world dies, but only to rise again. The spirit destroys its former creations, shatters its idols, laments their loss. But as in Faust, the chorus still sings: Thou hast it destroyed, The beautiful world, With powerful fist: In ruin tis hurled, By the blow of a demigod shattered! The scattered Fragments into the Void we carry, Deploring The beauty perished beyond restoring. Mightier For the children of men<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DxvEAWKGq0&feature=related> . Brightlier Build it again <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1FPK5-Rm38&feature=related>. In thine own bosom build it anew! Bid the new career Commence, With clearer sense, And the new songs of cheer Be sung thereto! Such a building anew of the lost universe in the bosom of the human spirit, it was the mission of Kant to begin." Josiah Royce *The Rediscovery of the Human Life* Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
