Select Works, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Select Works, Vol. 1 To emerge out of this condition there must be a twofold process begun and carried forward, and at length brought to its full and perfect termination: - light must be poured upon the earth, and the faculty of seeing must be conferred upon its inhabitants. One can imagine, that instead of the light being made instantaneously to burst upon us in its highest splendour, and instead of the faculty being immediately bestowed upon us in full vigour to meet and to encounter so strong a tide of effulgency - that both these processes were conducted in a way that was altogether gradual - that the light, for example, had its first weak glimmering; and that the eye, in the feebleness of its infancy, was not overcome by it - that the light advanced with morning step to a clearer brilliancy; and that the eye, rendered able to bear it, multiplied the objects of its sight, and took in a wider range of perception - that the light shone at length unto the perfect day; and that the eye, with the last finish upon its properties and its powers, embraced the whole of that variety which lies within the present compass of human contemplation. We must see that if one of these processes be gradual, the other should be gradual also. By shedding too strong a light upon weak eyes we may overpower and extinguish them. -By granting too weak a light to him who has strong eyes, we make the faculty outstrip the object of its exercise, arid thus incur a waste of endowment. By attempering the one process to the other, we maintain throughout all the stages that harmony which is so abundantly manifested in the works of Nature and Providence, between man as he actually is and the circumstances by which man is actually surrounded. These preliminary statements will, we trust, be of some use in illustrating the progress not of natural but of spiritual light, along that path which forms the successive history of our world. Whatever discernment Adam had of the things of God in Paradise, the fall which he experienced was a fall into the very depths of the obscurity of midnight. The faculties he had in a state of innocence made him able to perceive that the Creator who formed him took pleasure in all that He had formed; and rejoiced over them so long as He saw that they were good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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