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@ 2009-12-23 16:35 Vitti
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1885. This is the third volume of the series, and was not quite
completed at the time of Mr. Johnson's death in 1882. The other volumes,
on _India_ and _China_, created much interest in the world of religious
and ethnical study, a prominent London publisher and literateur saying
to a friend of the present writer that nothing more would need to be
written of China for the next quarter of a century. Max Muller testified
to the high value of Mr. Johnson's work. In the study of the various
religions, the author finds in each some peculiar manifestation of the
universal religious sentiment. In Southern Asia he clearly sees nature
almost absorbing the individual and hence a pantheistic vagueness and
vastness in which man does not realize a complete sense of personality.
But in the North and West the same Tudo-European race comes to a
self-conscious individuality and there is the "evolution and worship of
personal will." Mr. Johnson's first chapter on "Symbolism" brings out
this epoch of will development as illustrated by the Persians,--the
human soul impressing itself upon the material world--and finding
outside itself natural emblems to express its religious life. "Symbolism
is mediation between inward and outward, person and performance, man and
his environment." "Work is the image man makes of himself on the world
in and through nature." Mr. Johnson finds the personal element becoming
supreme in these people of Northern and Western Asia. Perhaps there has
never been so philosophical and satisfactory a treatment of the
Fire-Symbol, which

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