Physics And Politics; Or, Thoughts On the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" And "inheritance" to Political Society
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Political discussion must more those who have to act ; it must be framed in the ideas, and be consonant with the precedent, of its time, just as it must speak its language. But within these marked conditions good discussion is better than bad ; no people can bear a government of discussion for a day, which does not, within the boundaries of its pre- judices and its ideas, prefer good reasoning to bad reasoning, sound argument to unsound. A prize for argumentative mind is given in free states, t...o which no other states have anything to compare.
Tolerance too is learned in discussion, and, as history shows, is only so learned. In all customary societies bigotry is the ruling principle. In rude places to this day any one who says anything new is looked on with suspicion, and is persecuted by opinion if not injured by penalty. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It is, as common people say, so ' upsetting ; ' it makes you think that, after all, your favourite, notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded ; it is certain that till now there was no place allotted in your mind to the new and startling inhabitant, and now that it has conquered an entrance, 164 PHYSICS AND POLITICS, you do not at once see which of your old ideas it will or will not turn out, with which of them it can be recon- ciled, and with which it is at essential enmity.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Political discussion must more those who have to act ; it must be framed in the ideas, and be consonant with the precedent, of its time, just as it must speak its language. But within these marked conditions good discussion is better than bad ; no people can bear a government of discussion for a day, which does not, within the boundaries of its pre- judices and its ideas, prefer good reasoning to bad reasoning, sound argument to unsound. A prize for argumentative mind is given in free states, t...o which no other states have anything to compare.
Tolerance too is learned in discussion, and, as history shows, is only so learned. In all customary societies bigotry is the ruling principle. In rude places to this day any one who says anything new is looked on with suspicion, and is persecuted by opinion if not injured by penalty. One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. It is, as common people say, so ' upsetting ; ' it makes you think that, after all, your favourite, notions may be wrong, your firmest beliefs ill-founded ; it is certain that till now there was no place allotted in your mind to the new and startling inhabitant, and now that it has conquered an entrance, 164 PHYSICS AND POLITICS, you do not at once see which of your old ideas it will or will not turn out, with which of them it can be recon- ciled, and with which it is at essential enmity.
What to read after Physics And Politics; Or, Thoughts On the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" And "inheritance" to Political Society?
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