Duality of thought and language : an outline of original research / by Emil Sutro.

  • Sutro, Emil, 1832-1906.
Date:
1904
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    ening scientific insight. What is the consequence? Their reason is with science, their heart belongs to tradition. Europeans not possessing any knowledge of these physio-psychological causes, simply view these conflicting tendencies as an underlying stratum of “ insincerity and cant ” in the Anglo-Saxon char- acter. The high ideals of the Germans on the other hand are productive of classes, mainly of what they call the “ Gebildeten ” (educated) as against the “ Unge- bildeten ” (uneducated). With them the classes are against the masses in this assumed superiority as much as the masses are against the classes. With us it is at most the masses against the classes in their strife for the betterment of their condition. Hence with us such a thing as anarchism and even socialism is scarce- ly known, all classes being on the same footing; spring- ing as they do from the people and belonging to the people. In Germany the classes, in the first instance, are composed of those who have the time and the oppor- tunity to devote to their ideals, quite apart from mat- ters of usefulness, as against the struggling masses who have not the time and the opportunity to devote to the same. With us there is no striking diflFerence as between one class and another; we are all moulded of the same clay; we all have the same ideals. Hence few dare step forward, and in spiritual matters take an independent and opposite stand to that of the vast majority of their countrymen. The mind of this coun- try in matters of religion (in spite of its many Chris- tian churches of different denominations, which as a
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