perceive but do not understand; that even reason is a mystery. He is so sure of his ability to explain everything. A generation ago he was convinced science would solve all the mysteries left in the world.
             Mysterious and miraculous majesty have almost been forgotten in the mind of modern man. Education stresses the importance of teaching the student how to exploit reality. Few courses are offered that develop appreciation of beauty, and there is no education for the sublime.
             We fail to teach children to revere, to sense the wonder and awe of the universe. The potential knowledge of how to sense the sublime, inward greatness found in outward manifestation of the human soul is something which is given to all men, yet rarely utilized. Without it, the world becomes flat and the soul becomes a vacuum. Here is where the Biblical writings, with the ancient, reverential view of reality, may guide. Significantly the theme of Biblical poetry is not the charm or beauty of nature; it is the grandeur, it is the sublime aspect of nature which Biblical poetry is trying to celebrate (Rothschild, 37).
             "The sublime is not opposed to the beautiful, and must not, furthermore, be considered an esthetic category. The sublime may be sensed in things of beauty as well as in acts of goodness and in the search for truth. The perception of beauty may be the beginning of the experience of the sublime. The sublime is that which we see and are unable to convey. It is the silent allusion of things to a meaning greater than themselves. It is that which all things ultimately stand for; "the inveterate silence of the world that remains immune to curiosity and inquisitiveness like distant foliage in the dusk." It is that which our words, our forms, our categories can never reach. This is why the sense of the sublime must be regarded as the root of man's creative activities in art, thought, and noble living."
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