¿Dipus on the Sphinx of the Nineteenth Century

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SELF-WILL THE ANTAGONIST OF DEITY. 13 that ultimate civilization that they, one day not very distant, hoped to reach, when suddenly they are petrified, and vegetate dust-begotten creatures to turn at length to dust again. Merrily laughing, they continue cooking their savoury morsels, washing them down with...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SELF-WILL THE ANTAGONIST OF DEITY. 13 that ultimate civilization that they, one day not very distant, hoped to reach, when suddenly they are petrified, and vegetate dust-begotten creatures to turn at length to dust again. Merrily laughing, they continue cooking their savoury morsels, washing them down with draughts of the rarest wines, just as the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah did, till they stumbled all together into the brimstone pit of eternal death, fancying themselves all the while immortals and gods, and therein vastly superior to the perishing orang outangs. CHAPTER II. CONFLICT OF KIVAL OPINIONS. Sacerdotalism and science, or the philosophy of cosmism, have ever been, are now, and will continue to be, radically and irreconcilably opposed to the end of human time. For the first is the philosophy of the absolute, and the second is that progressing study of the relative which necessarily denies the assumed knowledge of the absolute; and thus it is that the two studies can no more be reconciled, than oil and water can be intermixed. Sacerdotalism postulates the existence of absolute beings, who contend in an interminable war of good and evil principles; whereas cosmism, which is the philosophy of naturalism, defers the solution of this occult problem of pain and sorrow, called evil, in the universe, to the day of judgment. Sacerdotalism is the effete philosophy of the super or contra-natural; whereas science is the philosophy of natural phenomena. The former, which is the teaching of priestcraft, assumes that the material universe has been created by fiat out of nothing. In flat contradiction of this dogma, cosmism maintains that the universal existence is eternal, and neither was, nor could possibly have been, created or fabricated by simple fiat out ...