The Origin and Ideals of the Modern SchoolFerrer Guardia, Francisco
History
The Origin and Ideals of the Modern School
Ferrer Guardia, Francisco
Education -- Spain; Escuela moderna (Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain)
centuries ago, and of which, if it ruler of the world, is thus
read all day and night, it would represented after a purely human
not exhaust the wealth. A fashion in his thought and work.
prodigious book in which all was Hence it follows that man in turn
calculated before the science of is god-like. “God made man to his
arithmetic was invented; in which own image and likeness.” The
the origin of language is told older, naive theology is pure
without any knowledge of “homotheism,” attributing human
philology; in which the shape, flesh, and blood to the
revolutions of the stars are gods. It is more intelligible than
described without any knowledge of the modern mystic theosophy which
astronomy; in which history is adores a personal God as an
recorded without any documents of invisible—properly speaking,
history; in which the laws of gaseous—being, yet makes him
nature are unveiled without any think, speak, and act in human
knowledge of physics. A prodigious fashion; it offers us the
book, that sees everything and paradoxical picture of a gaseous
knows everything; that knows the vertebrate.
thoughts hidden in the hearts of
men and those in the mind of God; 3. The anthropolatric dogma
that sees what is happening in the naturally results from this
abysses of the sea and in the comparison of the activity of God
bowels of the earth; that records and man; it ends in the apotheosis
or foretells all the catastrophes of human nature. A further result
of nations, and in which are is the belief in the personal
accumulated all the treasures of immortality of the soul, and the
mercy, of justice, and of dualistic dogma of the twofold
vengeance. A book, in fine, which, nature of man, whose “immortal”
when the heavens are folded like a soul is conceived as the temporary
gigantic fan, and the earth sinks, inhabitant of a mortal frame. Thus
and the sun withdraws its light, these three anthropistic dogmas,
and the stars are extinguished, variously adapted to the
will remain with God, because it respective professions of the
is his eternal word, echoing for different religions, came at
ever in the heights. [8] length to be vested with
extraordinary importance, and
proved to be the source of the
most dangerous errors. [9]
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