Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
147 vested by many with an unchangeable character. It is in accordance with the laws of human development and the limitations of knowledge, that man can gain possesion of truth only by parts, and only through many modifications, many transformations. The psychology of childhood presents us with a wonderful world of imagi- 'f< nation, in whose magical sphere the objects which move are realised nevertheless as near, tangible and concrete. The psychology cf childhood is marked by the most wondrous imagination, together with the closest grasp of bodily objects. The highest thought is in it, in material symbol. But what changes, what transformations these imaginations, these symbolical thinkings undergo, when the higher faculties of the soul come into development; when the mind steps in, with its analytical and synthetical power, and deals with this imagination world. How do these symbols fall into ruins in its path; and how come forth conceptions, ideas, thoughts, corresponding more with the inner connections and real essences of things; leaving only to the imagination the work of giving to them poetical colour and expression. And Avhat change, what, revolution is brought about in the notions and systems the mind has already achieved, when a new and higher idea spreads its light into the human soul. How much is determined by the narrower or larger horizon of the age, under whose zone the development of mind and the process of thinking is going on. On the more elevated heights what surprising modifications of the sequences of conceptions and ideas may be seen. Beneath the wide and clear zone, in the broad and long fields, how does the creative mind in Plato and Aristotle, plough new furrows of thought, and frame new and larger systems of human knowledge. The extension of horizon, the level of civilization attained by the age, has a bearing not merely on those conceptions which refer to things visible and outward,
