at he spokebut what they would
have wished him to speak. That one sentence expresses the whole object
of their philosophy.
But to that PantaenusOrigenClementand Augustine would have
answered: "And weon the other handassert that the God which is in
the universeis the same as the God which is in youand is striving to
bring you into harmony with Himself." There is the experimentum crucis.
There is the vast gulf between the Christian and the Heathen schools
which when any man had overleapedthe whole problem of the universe
was from that moment inverted. With Plotinus and his school man is
seeking for God: with Clement and hisGod is seeking for man. With
the formerGod is passiveand man active: with the latterGod is active
man is passive--passivethat isin so far as his business is to listen when
he is spoken toto look at the light which is unveiled to himto submit
himself to the inward laws which he feels reproving and checking him at
every turnas Socrates was reproved and checked by his inward Daemon.
Whether of these two theorems gives the higher conception either of
the Divine Beingor of manI leave it for you to judge. To those old
Alexandrian Christiansa being who was not seeking after every s
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