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God The Invisible King-Part17_H. G. WELLS (1866-1946)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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too easily assumed that Eastern teaching is whollyconcerned with

renunciation, not merely of self but of being, with the escape from



all effort of any sort into an exalted vacuity. This is indeed

neither the spirit of China nor of Islam nor of the every-day life



of any people in the world. It is not the spirit of the Sikh nor of

these newer developments of Hindu thought. It has never been the



spirit of Japan. To-day less than ever does Asia seem disposed to

give up life and the effort of life. Just as readily as Europeans,



do the Asiatics reach out their arms to that fuller life we can

live, that greater intensity of existence, to which we can attain by



escaping from ourselves. All mankind is seeking God. There is not

a nation nor a city in the globe where men are not being urged at



this moment by the spirit of God in them towards the discovery of

God. This is not an age of despair but an age of hope in Asia as in



all the world besides.

Islam is undergoing a process of revision closely parallel to that



which ransacks Christianity. Tradition and mediaeval doctrines are

being thrust aside in a similar way. There is much probing into the



spirit and intention of the Founder. The time is almost ripe for a

heart-searching Dialogue of the Dead, "How we settled our religions



for ever and ever," between, let us say, Eusebius of Caesarea and

one of Nizam-al-Mulk's tame theologians. They would be drawn



together by the same tribulations; they would be in the closest

sympathy against the temerity of the moderns; they would have a



common courtliness. The Quran is but little read by Europeans; it

is ignorantly supposed to contain many things that it does not



contain; there is much confusion in people's minds between its text

and the ancient Semitic traditions and usages retained by its



followers; in places it may seem formless and barbaric; but what it

has chiefly to tell of is the leadership of one individualised



militant God who claims the rule of the whole world, who favours

neither rank nor race, who would lead men to righteousness. It is



much more free from sacramentalism, from vestiges of the ancient

blood sacrifice, and its associated sacerdotalism, than



Christianity. The religion that will presently sway mankind can be

reached more easily from that starting-point than from the confused



mysteries of Trinitarian theology. Islam was never saddled with a

creed. With the very name "Islam" (submission to God) there is no



quarrel for those who hold the new faith. . . .

All the world over there is this stirring in the dry bones of the



old beliefs. There is scarcely a religion that has not its Bahaism,

its Modernists, its Brahmo Somaj, its "religion without theology,"



its attempts to escape from old forms and hampering associations to

that living and world-wide spiritualreality upon which the human



mind almost instinctively insists. . . .

It is the same God we all seek; he becomes more and more plainly the



same God.

So that all this religious stir, which seems so multifold and



incidental and disconnected and confused and entirely ineffective

to-day, may be and most probably will be, in quite a few years a



great flood of religious unanimity pouring over and changing all

human affairs, sweeping away the old priesthoods and tabernacles and



symbols and shrines, the last crumb of the Orphic victim and the

last rag of the Serapeum, and turning all men about into one



direction, as the ships and houseboats swing round together in some

great river with the uprush of the tide. . . .






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