The Bride of the Iconoclast; A Poem. Suggestions Toward the Mechanical Art of Verse
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The Anæsthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy
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Pluriverse (Routledge Revivals): An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism
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Pluriverse, the final work of the American poet and phi...)
Pluriverse, the final work of the American poet and philosopher Benjamin Paul Blood, was published posthumously in 1920. After an experience of the anaesthetic nitrous oxide during a dental operation, Blood came to the conclusion that his mind had been opened, that he had undergone a mystical experience, and that he had come to a realisation of the true nature of reality.
This title is the fullest exposition of Blood’s esoteric Christian philosophy-cum-theology, which, though deemed wildly eccentric by commentators both during his lifetime and later in the twentieth century, was nonetheless one of the most influential sources for American mystical-empiricism. In particular, Blood’s thought was a major inspiration for William James, and can be seen to prefigure the latter’s concept of Sciousness directly.
Benjamin Paul Blood was an American philosopher and poet. He noticed that anesthetic nitrous oxide, which he used during a dental operation, opened his mind to new ideas and continued experimenting with it for the rest of his life.
Background
Benjamin Blood was born on November 21, 1832, in the town of Amsterdam, New York, United States. He was descended on his father's side from Jeremiah Blood, an Irish emigrant of the middle of the eighteenth century. Jeremiah's son Robert was a thrifty farmer who acquired large holdings in Schenectady and Montgomery counties, New York; he married Mary Simons (Simmons), by whom he had nineteen children, one of whom, John, was the father, by Mary Stanton, of Benjamin Paul Blood. On his mother's side the latter was descended from John Howland, the Mayflower Pilgrim.
Education
Benjamin attended the local schools of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Academy, and, for a time, Union College.
Career
In due course Benjamin Blood inherited a farm which had been in the family for one hundred and thirty years. His long life, passed in and near his birthplace, was almost devoid of outward incident. Too self-sufficient to feel the need of travel, incurious as to the details of the world, he found in his inner life and in his reading of poetry and philosophy material for sufficiently rich experience. His career as an author began early. Before he was twenty-one he had completed The Bride of the Iconoclast, a long Shelleyesque poem in Spenserian stanzas, and The Philosophy of Justice (1851), the writing of which converted him, temporarily, from atheism to a very unorthodox Christianity. These works show an astonishingly precocious subtlety of thought and mastery of style in both prose and verse.
Blood had already elaborated a definite theory as to the relation of sound to sense, somewhat similar to the theories of Plato, Swedenborg, and Burns. Some unknown cause now intervened, however, to inhibit Blood's productivity. At long intervals there appeared from his pen Optimism (1860), an attempted theodicy, and The Colonnades (1868), a philosophical epic in blank verse.
Had it not been for Blood’s personal experience with an'sthetics (nitrous oxide), an experience first obtained prosaically in a dentist's chair and then repeated poetically and voluntarily during a period of twenty-seven years, Blood might have remained all his life in contented obscurity. Impressed by the quasi-mystical state of philosophic certainty and peace induced by an'sthetics, seemingly an attainment of consciousness of pure being, he printed in 1874 The Anæsthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy, which he mailed to numerous authors in this countryand in Europe. As a result there ensued a remarkably fruitful correspondence, notably with Hutchison Stirling, Alfred Tennyson, and William James. In 1889 several of Blood's earlier letters to newspapers appeared in a revised form as quasi-Hegelian "Philosophic Reveries" in the Journal of Speculative Philosophy.
Blood steadily moved, however, toward a more dynamic and pluralistic philosophy which found its final expression in his intransigeant Pluriverse. In that case, Blood's intellect triumphed strikingly over his emotions, for his critique of monism in Pluriverse was ruthless. He was a keener reasoner than either James or Bergson, and, if he entered late into the ranks of the pragmatists, he brought to them a much-needed dialectical ability. Poetry seems to have tempted him less in later years, although he contributed from time to time a number of short poems to Scribner's Magazine. His last acknowledged prose was an Introduction to the anonymous A Capitalist's View of Socialism (1916).
Achievements
Benjamin Blood was famous for his writings which include: The Philosophy of Justice Between God and Man (1851); Optimism: The Lesson of Ages (1860); The Bride of the Iconoclast (1950); The Colonnades (1868); The Anæsthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy (1874) and so on.
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Pluriverse, the final work of the American poet and phi...)
Views
Quotations:
"I am thankful at having seen the show; and although, after eighty-five years, the stars are flickering slightly, and the winds are something worn, I am still clear and confident in that religion of courage and content which cherishes neither regrets nor anticipations. "
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
"At heart he was, I think, a monist always. " - Horace Meyer Kallen
Connections
Benjamin Blood was twice married: first to Mary E. Sayles, who died in 1873; and second to Harriet A. Lefferts.
