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Show TO DEVELOP NEW MORLAITY Slnco thoso days wo havo dlscov. eted how much larger tho universe Is, and wo havo lost our way in it. Any day It may como over us again thot our modom liberty to drift In tho dark is tho most terrible negation nega-tion of freedom. Nothing happens to us as wo would. M'o want pence and mako war. Wo need sclenco nnd obey tho will to believe, wo lovo nrt and I flounder among whimsicalities, vo believe In general comfort and equality equal-ity and wo strain every norva to become millionaires. After all, antiquity must havo bren right In thinking that reasonable ee!f direction must rest on having a -K-tor-mlnnto character and knowing what it is and that only tho truth jilout God and happiness, If we somehow found It. could mako us fre.j. Put the truth Is not to bo fo.ind by guessing at it, as religious prohpets nnd men of genius have done, nnd then damning overy ono who dois not agree. Human nature, to.- nil Us substantial fixity, ls a living thing with many varieties and variations. All diversity of opinion Is therefore not founded on Ignornnco; It may express ex-press a legitimate change of habit or Interest. Tho classic and Christian synthesis from which wo have broken brok-en looso was certainly premature, even ev-en if tho only Issuo of our liberal experiments ex-periments should bo to lead us back to somo such equilibrium. Let us hopo at least that tiio now morality, when it comes, may bo more broadly based than tho old on knowledgo ot tho world, not so nbsoluto, not so meticulous, me-ticulous, and not chanted so much in tlio monotono of nn abstracted sago. Now Republic. |