Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
151 cognise. Hence come the changes. But these changes do not imply the non-existence of truth, on the contrary, they presuppose its reality. In order to the right recognition of truth, several things are requisite; development of the human faculties for it; clearness of the horizon; harmony of environment. Only in fullness of development, to clear vision, does truth appear as it really is. Freely granting this, we ask nevertheless, is not truth present in the first manifestations of human mind, does it not visit and quicken the imagination, though entering as a guess, though descried in a mistaken form, though shining with refracted rays ? The dispersed, erroneous gleams of truth, do they not constitute a presumption of its real existence ? From erroneous conceptions and notions respecting the essence and relations of things, from the shiftings and modifications of systems of knowledge framed by man, does it follow, that the thingst hemselves have no real essence, or that their relations and connections form no real system? Was not the sun a sure reality in the heavens, what time the untaught imagination pictured it as moving through the sky in daily course ? Did our earth not revolve in space, what time it seemed, even to Plato, to rest on its diamond-axis, while the fair starry firmament wheeled around it? Religious truth appears in its fullness only to the highest contemplation. But for all that, is it not already there, in the first stage of the life of mankind, though not well seen, not well recognised, because the spiritual is linked with, nay, identified with the material? Is the sense of religious relation not there, though its essence is ill detected, its real bearing perverted in the propitiatory rites of outward sacrifices ? From changes in religious conceptions and notions, from variations in systems of religion, is the consequence to be drawn, that spiritual Truth has no real being and the higher rela-
