Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Ye see then how that by works a man is justified.-New Testament. Religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good. Swedenborg. In nature dualism is universal. The globe and the atom alike have their north and south poles, one of which attracts the other repels. Tides flow and ebb. The […]

God formed man of the dust of the ground and he became a living soul.- Jewish Bible. I count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on, educe the man.—Browning. At our last meeting the suggestion was made that, at some far off period in our world’s history, a separation took place in […]

I lead in the way of righteousness in the midst of the paths of judgment.-Hebrew Proverb. There is a statement of religion possible which shall make all skepticism absurd.-Emerson. Geologists can write a history of the earth, botanists of plants, and astronomers can make a map of the sky ; but who can discover and […]

Add to your faith courage and to courage patience.—Peter. Patience and resignation are the pillars of human peace on earth.-Young. When viewing a fine result of nature or art, at first it is not seen how many and what varied qualities combine in producing it. It is after a prolonged view or after repeated visits, […]

Then the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness and he was there forty days.—New Testament. Bible students all notice how frequently the number “Forty” is employed. In the story of the Flood it is related that the rain fell for forty days and forty nights. When Moses was forty years old he went out from […]

The measure thereof is longer than the earth and broader than the sea.—Job. When these words were written the vastness of a thing was fitly described by comparing it with sea and land. Now other means of comparison are needed. The mariner’s compass has converted the unknown and mysterious sea into the known and common. […]

The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. The whole creation groaneth and travaileth together until now. -Paul. Each age manufactures or adopts some word already made that serves to indicate its prevalent character or tendency. As upon rock strata marks are found showing how high the waves […]

There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.—Paul. If one should undertake to write a history of Unitarianism, as a form of Christianity, he would find his task as delightful and inspiring as would be that of composing a history of any religious sect. There is as […]

For the spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God.-Paul. Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought.-C. P. Cranch. It is a fundamental law of all just criticism that everything must be judged by its own kind. Painting should be compared with painting, sculpture with sculpture, poetry with poetry, […]

Be ye therefore perfect. Therefore leaving the beginning of the doctrine of Christ let us go unto perfection. In all the historic period there have been those who have dreamed of and tried to picture a perfect civilization. Plato wrote of the Ideal Republic. Jesus spoke frequently of a kingdom of God. Sir Thomas More […]