Show The Danger or Utilitarianism Utilitarianism destroys man it curtails cur-tails all our conceptions of practical life For there is neither sentiment nor right nor nobleness nor beauty nor holiness nothing In short of what is human nothing but figures That which is not worth money or cannot earn it is as a rule worthless This is the most frightful error which can overtake a man for that which is worth the most in human life is precisely that which cannot be bought nor sold Therefore I consider utilitarianism in I youth a1 a calamity That socalled honest disposition of the staid and selfish self-ish bourgeois is i worse than all the vices A youth of the earth earthly heaven preserve us from it The beautiful beau-tiful name of youth is unfitting for it Is not youth made up of all the enthusiasm enthu-siasm and all theardors which lead us to despise utilitarianism To be at tacked by it is to be prey to senility to enter into existence with a mark of decrepitude As i is worse to be born blind than to become blind since even the recollection of light Is missing so to begin ones days with utilitarianism is worse than to end them with it for there remains at least a reflection of higher things from which one has been separated by the slow wear of life lfe The precocious utilitarian has no souvenirs sou-venirs Charles Wagner |