Author: Mary Gonzaga

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-21

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9780484757256

Excerpt from The Mysticism of Johann Joseph Von Gorres as a Reaction Against Rationalism: A Dissertation Men often champion the cause of the Intellect, or the Feeling, or the Will, as if they were three rival powers contending for the supremacy over our lives. The unity of our personality is often lost sight of. Man is no more pure intellect than he is pure sentiment, or pure will. He is body and soul, and is endowed with the capacity to know, to love, and to will. The same power which gave man the above capacities gave him also the tendencies to satisfy them. The two tendencies that concern us here chiefly are to know and to love, and no one will deny that the need to love is greater than the need to know; for, indeed, man needs to know only in order to love since the latter encloses the secret of his happiness. Reason, as the princess, dwells in the highest room, but love is the power that inspires and saves, the source of light and life and warmth. A poet truly says. 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.