IIIFカラー高解像度
国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
THE INHERENT IMPULSE 435
When such a man wrote of the action of a strange force
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the matter is worth close examination.
Intrinsically, there is nothing improbable or unnatural
in the idea. Individually, we all feel ourselves at times
in the possession of some unknown power. We are often
carried along by an irresistible impulse in spite of ourselves.
Each of us must at some time or other in his life have felt
that within him which will not let him rest, but impels to
expression. Everyone must have experienced deep within
him a great source of power which ever and anon comes
welling up in forceful spiritual fountains. Some inner
necessity compels us onward—longings, dreams, aspira-
tions, greater than can ever be satisfied coming surging up
from the inmost depths of our beings.
This internal force which probably most of us indi-
vidually feel to be within ourselves we also feel must be
working in others around us. And we have the further
feeling that we are not each of us separate and isolated
geysers, but are connected together and impelled by some
common interior, hidden, urge and impulse. Each of
us is a living centre of action, but we all draw from some
one original source and spring of being. Deep in the
heart of things, inherent in the very life itself, we feel
there is an indwelling eternal energy or vital impulse
the life-force " of Bernard Shaw ; the potent, felt,
interior command " of Whitman ; the élan vital " of
Bergson ; the impulse from the distance of our deepest,
best existence " of Matthew Arnold ; surging ever upward
and outward, and straining to express itself through our
personalities.
To many of the deepest thinkers this is of all things
the most real—to some it is the only thing that is real.
The solid mountains may be merely an aspect or appear-
ance of the true reality behind. But to many this great
world-force, energizing through Nature " ; this " creative
and urging principle of the world " ; this unseen cosmic
impulse ; this indwelling spirit pervading every human
being, and ever striving to unfold itself ; this pulse and
motive, the fibre and the breath," is the one certainty,
the one genuine reality.
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