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G. H. Percival. The Incarnate Purpose
The Incarnate Purpose
Table of Contents
I. THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
II. THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS UNSEEN
III. THE ALCHEMY OF LOVE
IV. THE HERITAGE OF PAIN
V. THE VESTURE OF GOD
VI. SPIRITUAL CORRESPONDENCE
INDEX
A Catalogue of Williams & Norgate's Publications
I. Theology and Religion
THEOLOGICAL TRANSLATION LIBRARY. New Series
THEOLOGICAL TRANSLATION FUND LIBRARY. OLD Series
THE CROWN THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY
THE HIBBERT LECTURES
ALPHABETICAL LIST
II. Philosophy, Psychology
III. Oriental Languages, Literature, and History
IV. Modern Languages & Literature
V. Science
VI. Miscellaneous
LIST OF PERIODICALS, REVIEWS, AND TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
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G. H. Percival
Essays on the Spiritual Unity of Life
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The genius lives in advance of his time, having a flash-like insight into knowledge hidden as mystery from the understandings of his fellow-men. He suffers the loneliness of the pioneer who, treading a path where none has trod before, leaves an open way with marks of guidance and explanation for those who come after him. But such a man has compensation for the lack of human fellowship in his consciousness of achieving work capable of raising the standard of thought in the minds of those who behold it. They may not understand, but they can admire. They acknowledge the work of genius—an attitude which is conducive towards a fuller appreciation of what they admire. They behold, in fact, evidence of something they do not fully understand, but which they apprehend to be true. Thus art fulfils its divinely ordered purpose in the evolution of the human mind, its educational influence being traceable in all records of human progress.
But there are spiritual ideals, visions of beauty, symphonies of harmony, unseen by earthly eyes, unheard by earthly ears, wholly impossible of demonstration, which remain for ever unexpressed and uncomprehended by those who have apprehended them. These seers of visions and dreamers of dreams have not, perhaps, the artistic power by which an attempt could be made to transcribe the vision in a manner legible to the ordinary human understanding. Or there exists, perhaps, no adequate evidence by which even a genius is able to express what he has apprehended in ideal and abstract thought. Yet to the dreamer, the seer, the genius an ideal is none the less true because he cannot certify its truth by evidence that would convey its verity to other persons.
