The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Biblical Repository and Classical Review, Vol. 4 T e existence of Homer might seem for centuries an affair having nothing to do with the world's redemption. By and by comes up Plato, then Aristotle, then Alexander, and Homer's mind pours through these channels into the soul of the world's conqueror, and Homer's native Greek is spread over the East by the same impulse that makes Alexander a half incarnation of Ho mer's Achilles. Then comes the translation of the Se tuagint, so that the birth of Homer and the 3 read of God's W0 though (reconnected by an interval of hun reds of years, are linked by no fanciful, but a real, deep, and most remarkable connexion. The poet Goethe said that Aristotle was like a huge Pyramid restin on the earth, and built mathematically for the earth, while lato shoots upward towards heaven like an obelisk, yea, like a pointed ¿ame. Now there are these two t pes of character, and only these, in all historical literature. T e greater part of history rests upon the earth as its foundation, and has the earth for its end if it is mathematicall correct, and solid as a Pyra. Mid, it is only a mausoleum for dead bones, and even its a ea: does not mean to shoot towards heaven, any more than one 0 its four corners. But another, though as yet a very small part of history, shoots like the obelisk to heaven, yea, as a inted ¿ame, or a chariot of ¿ame, carries the soul up to God. Fist so, indeed, in all science, one part has the earth only for its object, and is dead, another part has God for its object, and is alive. 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.