So throughout, as might be shown
by the same induction suggested in relation to another aspect of the
matter. Now here is my point. Trinitarians, whose whole system from
beginning to end is transcendental, ideal, -- an idea is the highest
truth, -- war against the very foundations of whatever is
transcendental, ideal; all must be empiric, sensuous, inductive. A
system, which used to create and sustain the most fervid enthusiasm,
as is its nature, for it makes God all in all, leads in crusade
against all even the purest and gentlest enthusiasm. It fights for
the letter of Orthodoxy, for usage, for custom, for tradition,
against the Spirit as it breathes like healing air through the damps
and unwholesome swamps, or like strong wind throwing down rotten
trees and rotten frameworks of men. It builds up with one hand the
Temple of Truth on the outside; and with the other works as in a
frenzy to tear up its very foundations. So has it seemed to me. The
transcendentalists do not err in excess but in defect, if I
understand the case. They do not hold wild dreams for realities; the
vision is deeper, broader, more spiritual than they have seen.
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