Essays in Scientific Synthesis
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Kidd maintains that religion must always be a con- dition of social survival, in the sense that irreligious societies are doomed to perish in the universal struggle 1 Vide the following Essay : Historic Materialism.
THE RELIGIOUS PHENOMENON 179 for life in which they come into conflict with societies that remain religious. His fundamental idea appears to be that a society composed of individuals guided by reason alone will be so occupied with the present, i. E. The greatest happiness of the gre...atest number of their own generation, that they will pay no attention to the future of the species. The role of religion would there- fore be to bring society to that anti-rational outlook on things which would secure it the best conditions for future success.
And what is the nature of this supreme principle of anti-rational conduct inculcated in modern societies by Christianity with the object of guaranteeing to it the best conditions of success ? According to Kidd it would be a principle, the nascent germ of which is in this religion, but which, having been latent for some eighteen hundred years at least, can only now at last develop and bear fruit.
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Kidd maintains that religion must always be a con- dition of social survival, in the sense that irreligious societies are doomed to perish in the universal struggle 1 Vide the following Essay : Historic Materialism.
THE RELIGIOUS PHENOMENON 179 for life in which they come into conflict with societies that remain religious. His fundamental idea appears to be that a society composed of individuals guided by reason alone will be so occupied with the present, i. E. The greatest happiness of the gre...atest number of their own generation, that they will pay no attention to the future of the species. The role of religion would there- fore be to bring society to that anti-rational outlook on things which would secure it the best conditions for future success.
And what is the nature of this supreme principle of anti-rational conduct inculcated in modern societies by Christianity with the object of guaranteeing to it the best conditions of success ? According to Kidd it would be a principle, the nascent germ of which is in this religion, but which, having been latent for some eighteen hundred years at least, can only now at last develop and bear fruit.
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