Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... HENRY MORE--CHRISTIAN THEOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM. As the Cambridge movement reached its highest, or at least its most elaborate, intellectual elevation in Cudworth, so it ripened into its finest personal and/ religious development in Henry More. Cudworth is much less interesting than his writings; More is") far more interesting than any of his. He was a voluminous author. His writings fill several folio volumes; they are in verse as well as prose; they were much read and admired in their day; but they are now wellnigh forgotten. Some of them are hardly any longer readable. Yet More himself is at once the most typical and the most vital and' interesting of all the Cambridge school. He is the most Platonical of the Platonic sect, and at the same time the most genial, natural, and perfect man of them all. We get nearer to him than any of them, and can read more intimately his temper, character, and manners--the lofty and serene beauty of his personality--one of the most exquisite and charming portraits which the whole history of religion and philosophy presents. More was born in 1614, three years before Cud worth, at Grantham, in Lincolnshire; and we have happily the means of tracing both his external and internal history more familiarly than that of his great colleague.1 His father was "Alexander More, Esq., a gentleman of fair estate and fortune," greatly beloved and esteemed by his son, who dedicated to him the collection of his 'Philosophical Poems' in 1647. He speaks in his dedication of his father's "generous openness and veracity," and wishes he were a " stranger to his blood," that he "might with a better decorum set out the nobleness of his spirit." He attributes his poetical taste to his father's reading with him in the winter...
