Social Morality: Twenty-One Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge
Social Morality: Twenty-One Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge
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Why may not 'the Order that we say our fathers bequeathed 'us be advantageously exchanged for one which ' exists in a country equally civilized with ours ? If ' we did become portions of some great Empire, 'would its rulers interfere with our Commerce, * hinder the transactions in our sbops, even, ex- ' cept for a while, seriously affect the movements 'of the Stock Exchange? The real tangible 'blessings would be all preserved to us; only the 'intangible — the sentimental; — would be taken 'away.../ You may perhaps have read books in which these positions are formally, nakedly main- tained. Would that they might be always put forward broadly, distinctly, in clear printed letters 1 Then they are comparatively harmless; then there is enough left of heart in most of us to hate the 14—2 Digitized by VjOOQIC 212 NATIONAL MORALITY, LaoT. XI. lie that is hidden in them if we cannot at once Whence dctcct it bv ouf Understandings*. The mischief thev derive . •' ° .
their force, of them is that they are mixed with much benevolent talk about poor creatures who are starved or killed for the sake of a phantom, with much religious talk about the wickedness of send- ing men out of the world sinful and unprepared; so that we are disposed to entertain them as respectable and highly sensible suggestions, such perhaps as we are not quite prepared to accept in their length and breadth, but as are worthy of our consideration.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Why may not 'the Order that we say our fathers bequeathed 'us be advantageously exchanged for one which ' exists in a country equally civilized with ours ? If ' we did become portions of some great Empire, 'would its rulers interfere with our Commerce, * hinder the transactions in our sbops, even, ex- ' cept for a while, seriously affect the movements 'of the Stock Exchange? The real tangible 'blessings would be all preserved to us; only the 'intangible — the sentimental; — would be taken 'away.../ You may perhaps have read books in which these positions are formally, nakedly main- tained. Would that they might be always put forward broadly, distinctly, in clear printed letters 1 Then they are comparatively harmless; then there is enough left of heart in most of us to hate the 14—2 Digitized by VjOOQIC 212 NATIONAL MORALITY, LaoT. XI. lie that is hidden in them if we cannot at once Whence dctcct it bv ouf Understandings*. The mischief thev derive . •' ° .
their force, of them is that they are mixed with much benevolent talk about poor creatures who are starved or killed for the sake of a phantom, with much religious talk about the wickedness of send- ing men out of the world sinful and unprepared; so that we are disposed to entertain them as respectable and highly sensible suggestions, such perhaps as we are not quite prepared to accept in their length and breadth, but as are worthy of our consideration.
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