The Essentials of Christianity
The Essentials of Christianity
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A mere instrument is not responsible. Now a man who from the start is shut up to a particular act, or series of acts, with no power to vary the result, is not an agent but an in- strument pure and simple. The true agent, if there be any agent in the case, is the one who so fashioned him and adjusted him to his en- vironment as to secure in all its details the actual outcome. It makes no difference where the determining factor is located, whether within or without the man. So long as it is viewe...d as being in origin entirely outside of his option it leaves him a mere instrument. The fact that he is a conscious instrument, or an instrument endowed with a faculty of reason, cannot be reckoned an element in his respon- sibility, so long as he is simply an instrument, any more than the quality of its metal can be charged against an ax. No namable quality or faculty in him which does not bring into 196 THE ESSENTIALS OF CHRISTIANITY view a power to vary the result can convey any rational suggestion of responsibility.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A mere instrument is not responsible. Now a man who from the start is shut up to a particular act, or series of acts, with no power to vary the result, is not an agent but an in- strument pure and simple. The true agent, if there be any agent in the case, is the one who so fashioned him and adjusted him to his en- vironment as to secure in all its details the actual outcome. It makes no difference where the determining factor is located, whether within or without the man. So long as it is viewe...d as being in origin entirely outside of his option it leaves him a mere instrument. The fact that he is a conscious instrument, or an instrument endowed with a faculty of reason, cannot be reckoned an element in his respon- sibility, so long as he is simply an instrument, any more than the quality of its metal can be charged against an ax. No namable quality or faculty in him which does not bring into 196 THE ESSENTIALS OF CHRISTIANITY view a power to vary the result can convey any rational suggestion of responsibility.
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