The Approach to the Social Question; An Introduction to the Study of Social Ethics
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As he applies to its interpretation the principles of ethical idealism, is he not, in fact, passing the boundary of ethics, and entering the province of religion ? What is this direction of life toward an ideal end, this pull on conduct from the things that are unseen and eternal, this yield- ing of life to the imperative persuasion of the Perfect, but a witness of the abiding vitality of the religious life ? Has not the key of ethics unlocked a more sacred chamber of the spirit than it had see...med designed to open, and do we not enter through this open door the shrine of religious ex- perience and desire? To approach the Social Question by the roads of social science, sociology, economics, and ethics, one must laboriously trudge across vast and often arid plains of experience ; but does not religion traverse the same region without hindrance or check as if by the aerial navigation of the spirit ? Is not the Social Question another name for practical religion ? There are, it must be admitted, many signs of the times which point to quite an opposite con- 165 1 66 THE APPROACH TO THE SOCIAL QUESTION elusion.
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