6/1/2023 0 Comments Nicholas nickleby twistFor religion the flowers shoot up suddenly like rockets. Religion prefers to think of it as quick. Philosophically speaking, the process is neither slow nor quick since we have nothing to compare it with. Where science, submitting to the false standard of time, sees evolution, which is slow, religion sees creation, which is sudden. In the first case the word brevity means futility in the second case, opportunity. Pessimism says that life is so short that it gives nobody a chance religion says that life is so short that it gives everybody his final chance. Religion insists on the shortness of human life in order to show that life is frightfully valuable - is almost horribly valuable. Pessimism insists on the shortness of human life in order to show that life is valueless. But it does not insist on the shortness of human life as the pessimists insist on it. Thus religion is always insisting on the shortness of human life. Similarly, religion comes to a point - to the point. It is the whole essence of perspective that it comes to a point. Both romance and religion see everything as it were foreshortened they see everything in an abrupt and fantastic perspective, coming to an apex. Romance resembles religion especially in this, that it is not only a simplification but a shortening of existence. Romance is perhaps the highest point of human expression, except indeed religion, to which it is closely allied.
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