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.The dream of Security became glassy-eyed nightmare and Victory on the field the fan of hope.Mankind found himself doomed to day-by-day, year-by-year discovery of an increasing desperateness in his situation.Science, which had enjoyed its century of light and truth, was locked up and made military.In order that nations might plan even for a partial continuation--in order that political creeds and ignorant religions might possibly stand--liberty was struck dead at its source and the bony old man, the black-cloaked figure of Death, came to squat, it may be for generations, in every dooryard of the world.From now on, and until the affairs of the species are enough uprooted by reason, revolution, or war for enlightened resettlement (even though war involve a return to cave-dwelling!), every man and woman and child lives in foxholes.And there are (fatuous claims of the godly to the contrary notwithstanding) many atheists among these.But it has proven that both atheists and believers are capable of doing equal damage in identical fashion.We are like men who have sentenced each other to the dungeon so that it now contains us all, and none of us will pardon another since each can still see, plainly, his fellow's guilt.A few of us, tunneling for light, have struck the sea; it pours in to drown us.We struggle not to recognize our individual guilt and thus make it possible to set free the lot of us but, instead, we try--some with blows and some with arguments--to decide who shall stand upon the shoulders of whom and postpone his drowning for the longest.Meantime the great majority cries out that since we at last recognize the presence of Flood, a gaoler will now surely come from heaven, or somewhere, and release us--though it is ourselves who sinned, judged, condemned, and digged the pit.American or Russian, Chinaman, Jap, Hindu, or Briton--we are all on this same planet which has become boat-sized of a sudden.The spectacle is ludicrous; it is distressing.And if there is a science of morals, it is time to add it to physics and biology, or to try to, for without it we shall certainly die.CHAPTER IITHE LARGEST PART OF THE HAVOC IN THIS CENTURY HAS been worked not by physical scientists or by the unassimilability of their lore, but by certain naturalists who have hit upon the fact that man is an animal.It would seem that man might have known this all the time, if not through introspection, then certainly by the behavior of his ancestors.But he has been--so obsessed with his divinity that he has lost sight of himself as an animal.He has in literal fact so set himself above and beyond and outside animals that for thousands of years he has been loath to show his own skin.And, while he has exploited his mind principally for the pleasure of his body and for the relief of it from pain, he has used his voice and the name of everyone of his gods to deny that his body is of any consequence to him.Only now that his body is in danger of universal dissolution does he question his estimate of his soul, and then only briefly, in obscure journals.The value which might and, indeed, ought to have accrued to the finding by man that man is an advanced beast, has never been appreciated.It is a subject which has, no entity for theologians.Metaphysicians and other philosophers will not touch it.Physicists believe either that the mere statement suffices, like Ohm's Law or one of old man Newton's Principles, or else they believe that somebody as bright and persistent as themselves, in another wing of the laboratory, is Working on It and will Announce some Results shortly.A psychologist or a sociologist, that is [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]