Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker.

  • Richard Dimsdale Stocker
Date:
1910
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Credit: Social idealism / by R. Dimsdale Stocker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is to teach our aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try to make facts harmonise with our aspirations.” No fact can be higher than Truth—even if that truth means annihilation for the individual soul. But why, let u's ask, does Dr Momerie claim immortality for man ? Because he loves man : Because he feels for man ? Because he is filled with horror and indignation at the atrocious injustice of things ? Is his assumption funda- mentally ethical ? No : this is not the real reason. On careful analysis, it is clear. Dr Momerie really takes up the line of argument that he does, not for man’s sake at all : but because he is anxious, at all costs, to uphold the honour of his God—a god that he would have us believe is a god of righteousness ; but who, nevertheless, is to act independently of—and at variance with—our highest volitions, needs, and ideals. Surely such a god as this is a complete contradiction ! Dr Momerie’s argument, to my mind, signally fails. If he loves man so much, why is he at such pains to plead the cause of a being who.
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