anthropomorphic failure of imagination

Afterwards Harwood and I lay under the trees and talked. He told me /of his new philosopher, Rudolf Steiner, who has ‘made the burden roll from his back’. Steiner seems to be a sort of panpsychist, with a vein of posing superstition, and I was very much disappointed to hear that both Harwood and Barfield were impressed by him. [The comfort () they got from him] (apart from the sugar plum of promised immortality, which is really the bait //with which he has caught Harwood) seemed something () I could get much better without him. I argued that [the ‘spiritual forces’ //which Steiner found everywhere] were either shamelessly mythological people or else no-one-knows-what. Harwood said () this was nonsense and that he understood perfectly what he meant by a spiritual force. I also protested that Pagan animism was an anthropomorphic failure of imagination and that we should prefer a knowledge of the real unhuman life //which is in the trees etc. * Animism (from Latin: anima, 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. 정령설; 만물에 정령이 있다 믿는 사상 * Anthropomorphism ; the interpretation of nonhuman things or events in terms of human characteristics, 의인화설   만사를 인간특성로 의인화하여 보는 사상 쉬운말의 의인화사상 ; Personification  Personification occurs when a thing or abstraction is represented as a person, in literature or art,  as an anthropomorphic metaphor. He accused me of a materialistic way of thinking /when I said that the similarity of all languages was probably depended on the similarity of all throats. 만물에 정령이 있다고 믿는건 자유지만천지창조에서 사람에게만 생령을 불어 넣어 주셨다 하기에기독적인 사상이나 믿음은 아니다 만사를 인간 자신의 특성에 준하여 이해한다는 것은인간의 주관성향에 딱 맞는 것이지만사람의 영과는 다른 동물의 혼이 사람특성으로 사람을 볼 수 없고(동물이 동물특성으로 사람을 볼건 상상이 가능하다) 혼이 없는 식물이나 물질들은 사람이 사람인지도 인식못하니 내 인간 기준으로 동식물등 만사를 본다는건 어폐가 있다 본다 물론 시인들이야 상상으로 동식물들을 personify 의인화하여 논하나어디까지나 시의 영역의 비유에 준하지 실제로 그리되는 것은 아니다내가 상상한대로 다 현실로 된다면 우린 신이지 인간이 아니다 From All My Road Before Me All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis: 1922-1927. Copyright © 1991 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Foreword copyright © 1981 by Owen Barfield. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.