This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...naturally and rightly calls for radical reconstruction; when new bottles must be found for the new wine. It is not too much to say that revolution is a law of lifeindividual and social. If, however, by revolution 0 you mean a wholly or partly destructive and negative synthesis---one that misses and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...naturally and rightly calls for radical reconstruction; when new bottles must be found for the new wine. It is not too much to say that revolution is a law of lifeindividual and social. If, however, by revolution 0 you mean a wholly or partly destructive and negative synthesis---one that misses and drops the values of the old, that does not explain and include them all in a higher unity----then, of course, I share your fear of revolution. There I would agree (to speak in figures) that the abrupt secularisation of the Church of Ste. Genevieve in Paris and. its transformation linto the Pantheon was a pseudo-revolution; a violation of the law of life. And the same is to be said of the whole secularisation of France. But here the blame attaches not only to; the State but to the Church, which has opposed the right and necessary sorts of revolution and thereby provoked the morbid sort. I will join you against-revolution if you will join me against reaction and petrifaction. So much so that my objection against the actual concrete Positivism (as a religion) is that it is a revolution in the bad sense--a schismatic breaking away of what should be and remain the more forward part of a general process. If Comte had remained (or become) a Catholic, if he had pushed his religious ideas as a deeper interpretation of the_ same Catholicism of which official Catholicism is the only possible form for the backward multitudes, the immediate results might have been quite inconspicuous, but he would have sown seed in a soil where, in the long run, it would have borne far more abundant and lasting fruit. May I again refer to chap. ii. of Scylla and Charybdis? It is as united to, not as cut off from, the savourless mass that the leaven does its work. You have...
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