Identifier: opencourt11_1897caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919
Subjects: Religion
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: The Newberry Library
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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The Doom of the Damned. (After Luca Signorelli. centuries. But while the literal belief of the mythology in whichthe ideas of the end of man and of this world has been surrendered,the religious leaders of to-day are endeavoring the more earnestlyto preserve their moral significance ; and in this respect the escha-tological conceptions have not lost their paramount importance inreligion, although their influence, like that of antiseptics, appearsto be purely negative. Religion, if it has any right to existence at all, must be able tocomfort man, to render him strong in the face of his own death 410 THE OPEN COURT. as well as in the contemplation of the discontinuance of all lifeon our planet. There is a deep truth in the prophecies of the end ofthe world, and we must learn to understand that while all things,
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The Last Judgment. After Michelangelo. (Sistine Chapel.) great as well as small, the most insignificant mote as well as entireuniverses, will be dissolved into their elements, that there are yetthings which will never decay. Justice, righteousness, and truth areimmortal. The world changes, but the laws of the world remain the ESCHATOLOGY IN CHRISTIAN ART. 411 same forever and aye. All material combinations will be broken upinto their parts. But the eternal types of existence, the ideas, asPlato calls them, the Logoi and the entirety of the logoi, i. e., theLogos, or the cosmic order in its immutable harmony, will remainforever and aye. These things are not non-entities, they are the most real fea-tures of reality. Although immaterial, they shape the evolution ofall material objects; although not concrete but absolute, they con-dition the nature of all concrete existences ; although superphysical(or, if you please, supernatural), they are the raison detre of allphysics. These things ar

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