Our Destiny: The Influence of Socialism on Morals and Religion; an Essay in Ethics |
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authority become believe chapter civilisation classes co-operation common commonwealth condition conscious evolution consciousness course degradation destiny developed divine duty EDWARD CARPENTER equality Established Order eternal evils existence fact Familistère favour feel fellow-men force Free-will function future genius give God's hand happiness hearts Henry James Herbert Spencer highest honour idea ideal important individual industrial instinct intellectual interests Jesus Kingdom of Heaven labour LAURENCE GRONLUND leaders Leslie Stephen living look Mallock mankind marriage masses matter means memory minds motives nation natural evolution never obedience organic unity organised perfect Pharisaism pleasure plutocracy practical precisely present private masters production Ptolemaic system race realise reason religion religious satanic selfish sentiment simply Sir James Stephen social order socialist régime society soul Spencer spirit superior supposed surely sympathy thing thought tion true truth Universal wealth whole words
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Page 36 - ... All along, furtherance of individual lives has been the ultimate end ; and, if this ultimate end has been postponed to the proximate end of preserving the community's life, it has been so only because this proximate end was instrumental to the ultimate end. When the aggregate is no longer in danger, the final object of pursuit, the welfare of the units, no longer needing to be postponed, becomes the immediate object of pursuit.
Page 102 - ... pretending to treat of social life without the inevitable preparation of the domestic life. Whichever way we look at it, this necessary transition always presents itself, whether in regard to elementary notions of fundamental harmony, or for the spontaneous rise of social sentiment. It is by this avenue that Man comes forth from his mere personality, and learns to live in another, while obeying his most powerful instincts.
Page 68 - Hence there is a supposable formula for the activities of each species, which, could it be drawn out, would constitute a system of morality for that species.
Page 164 - ... great fundamental doctrines of the existence of God and a future state are either true or at all events reasonably probable. To see these doctrines denied can surprise no rational man. Every one must be aware of the difficulties connected with them. What does surprise me is to see able men put them aside with a smile as being unimportant, as mere metaphysical puzzles of an insoluble kind which we may cease to think about without producing any particular effect upon morality. I have referred so...
Page 4 - Again, modern Political Economy, entirely disregarding the fact that both the Ancients and he who is called its founder insisted upon the unity of morals and economics, has entirely divorced them. Wealth has thus become an ultimate, instead of a mediate end, and this has caused Political Economy to be styled "the dismal science," for it sacrifices human beings to capital ; and makes our national wealth, controlled by shrewd, capable men, whose object is gain, act like a malarial poison upon a population...