APRIL 16th
Whatever the merits or demerits of the Pantheistic sentiment of melting into nature of ‘Oneness’ (I think they call it) with seas and skies, it is not and it never has been a popular sentiment. It has been the feeling of a few learned aesthetes or secluded naturalists. Popular poetry is all against Pantheism and quite removed from Immanence. It is all about the beautiful earth as an edge or fringe of something much better and quite distinct. Ballads and carols do not go to the tune of ‘One with the Essence of the Boundless World.’ Ballads and carols go to the tune of ‘Over the hills and far away;’ the sense that life leads by a strange and special path to something sacred and separate.
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Chesterton, G. K.. The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books] (Kindle Locations 43969-43976). Catholic Way Publishing. Kindle Edition.
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