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[Among these Essays are reprinted many of those which have appeared, from time to time, in the New Englander, from the pen of the author.] ARTICLE I.-ENGLISH MYSTICS OF THE PURITAN PERIOD. MYSTICISM is a type of thought and devotion, which reappears in every age of the world, and either within every relig ious system, or external to it and in antagonism to it. It owes this universality to the fact that it is the feminine mode of insight and aspiration. Whenever woman's intellect or even that of the more woman-like part of the other sex, finds itself depreciated and excluded from the sanctuary of religious. thought, it asserts for itself a right and a place by effecting a reaction against the principles and methods which would have excluded it. Hence the readiness with which Buddhism was welcomed in the far east, by those who found in Shintoism, Confucianism, and other indigenous Turanian faiths no play for the affections, no scope for the gentler virtues. But Mohammedanism presents within its own sphere the most striking instance of this. If ever there was a purely and thoroughly masculine creed, it was Islam,-a religion made up of external duties, public relations, and abstract beliefs, and making little or no demand upon the affections. It was utterly theocratic; 40 VOL. XXXVI. |