A Modern Utopia, H. G. Wells [i like reading books .txt] 📗

for me, if I find others responding

sympathetically to any notes of mine or if I find myself responding

sympathetically to notes sounding about me, to give that common

resemblance between myself and others a name, to refer these others

and myself in common to this thing as if it were externalised and

spanned us all.

 

Scepticism of the Instrument is for example not incompatible with

religious association and with organisation upon the basis of a

common faith. It is possible to regard God as a Being synthetic in

relation to men and societies, just as the idea of a universe of

atoms and molecules and inorganic relationships is analytical in

relation to human life.

 

The repudiation of demonstration in any but immediate and verifiable

cases that this Scepticism of the Instrument amounts to, the

abandonment of any universal validity for moral and religious

propositions, brings ethical, social and religious teaching into the

province of poetry, and does something to correct the estrangement

between knowledge and beauty that is a feature of so much mental

existence at this time. All these things are self-expression. Such

an opinion sets a new and greater value on that penetrating and

illuminating quality of mind we call insight, insight which when it

faces towards the contradictions that arise out of the imperfections

of the mental instrument is called humour. In these innate,

unteachable qualities I hold—in humour and the sense of

beauty—lies such hope of intellectual salvation from the original

sin of our intellectual instrument as we may entertain in this

uncertain and fluctuating world of unique appearances….

 

So frankly I spread my little equipment of fundamental assumptions

before you, heartily glad of the opportunity you have given me of

taking them out, of looking at them with the particularity the

presence of hearers ensures, and of hearing the impression they make

upon you. Of course, such a sketch must have an inevitable crudity

of effect. The time I had for it—I mean the time I was able to give

in preparation—was altogether too limited for any exhaustive finish

of presentation; but I think on the whole I have got the main lines

of this sketch map of my mental basis true. Whether I have made

myself comprehensible is a different question altogether. It is for

you rather than me to say how this sketch map of mine lies with

regard to your own more systematic cartography….

 

Here followed certain comments upon Personal Idealism, and Mr. F. C.

S. Schiller’s Humanism, of no particular value.

 

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