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Show B i.iii -1 - .,. ... 1 Moral Standard As tlssc pewee meral ataadards . Greece pascoi froM eae ex teem ef meral It j ( the etacr, that 9 Wire tkettlM tact metaritr coa-.' coa-.' date la eeekla all the pleesare possible, te a ttae ef pcneaality walea am aBtelate reaeoalaf te da- B term I Be every act, 1 dars Bay that 9 all who art aeqaalsted with the jV 4tems el Blheabsta's purled ooald Met coBteleBtleiHly place them aa SI high, la the aeata of morality, s I they ooald the meral standard of to- ' day. Evea la the life of every para a . I Moral experiences change; experience ' I wis spiritual history doe aot re ' I seat Itself. With the majority of , bmb, after malar ity la reaobed, tbelr Msoral standards beaooaer gradually j I higher. Of oonrae every person has jjftl aot the tame Ideals, or Ideas of pB personal gend aad attainment. V I bate not, aa set, reaahed a stage ' K where 1 can decide whether or sot B tale aet s right or whether aome ,B other aot la wrong. When I say that !B t mean to place eaob aad every not of IB llf4 according to circumstances, Bt either ob the moral shelf or ob the mmmm m Immoral shelf. Tbore are certainly 'H many and a largo majority of life's ;K experiences whioa I ba7e bo hesit- '.B aaoy, whateTer, in Immediately B labeling as moral or immoral. I Bk feature to say that a majority of ' people are like that But let us ex- a Saw amine some of tbo moral standards LbVIhH 1s t "Bd th.ea trv to draw b QOBoluaiaB.jaB KbT pleasure. They believe that the Bl r present time la ours, bat the fatare BBiS might never be. then on aoooant cf ffiiwkk that we should enek hII pleasure ' ' 3aam. poaeible. Arhtlppus was the founder I mm of the Oyrenalo Sobool whiob tnught :, IH Hedonism. To live iu tbo past Is i 'm equally as grave n fatilt aa to look to jMj the future. Hy doing tboso thlnpa is ' wH to defeat the ond of lifo. Tbo present k BB t,me '' tba only tln, thon Iet QB ' mI live from moment to momont, heaping fctjrrr tbem full, before they pase, with ex- HK treme self-gratiQoBtion. They aloo " B taogbt that life should be one of y fBE "feeling pure and simple, heedless flaf aad HBthlnhlogly undisturbed by H reason." flf Altbongb Omar Khayyam's verses imm ran oharmiagly smooth, are ex- ' oelieBtly ooastraoted and are ovl- B denoes bf a very powerful mind .the ; ? B ordinary persoa would soon lose all ' W beauty In life, become dleoourugcd A M aad wish to destroy oneself by living !9 as Omar's verses dictate. The follow- I lag Is somo of bis logld: "Too I aauob wisdom Is maob grief, and he that Inoreasetb kBOwledde laoreasutb sorrow. For what hath maa of till his labour and all the veratloa of bis hart wbereln he hathlabonred under , the sun? Tbore I commend mirth, m -i beaause a man hatb no Detter thing Wl V than to eat, and to drlo, and to be I merry; for that shall abide with him 1 of bis labour the days of bis life fj wblob God glvjth bits nsdtr the i l son." fl That kind of teachings are purely 1 Pagn ; the Christian world foals that ill' they are far fetched and altogether ill iaoorraot to think or believing, enneb l fj 1 lesa iQ adopting. Wo as Christian oaa immediately throw those K prlnolples aside for tbey would oa- K doubtedly lead to despair rather than jS to hope. Life would be one of ex- fm treme looseness, Biost ssiaredly. We Jill : aro not always cstlsfled when we soak (pleasure, oontrarlly, wo are many a times dissatisfied. fi Rationalism is the extreme to mSM Hedoaitm. East and 0. Sidwlek are WM atroBg ad vooates of Rationalism. The sehoel ef Oyaiee whleh was greatly )aSaeBee) hy the Seeratie'eharaeUt' taught. The life ef pitas lithe llVeef felly, the wise min wbald rather be a4 thaa plewwd. Per pleature makee man the slave ef fdrta'ne, the aervaat ef elroaaHtaBees. Soaratee tanght: "no evil eas hap-pa hap-pa to e gned aaB." That sehool weuld have e live x life of self denial: to always redooe oneself te the maxltaura wants and strictly eliminate all artlioial luxuries and caatemary aeada aad retura to the slsapllolty of nature. They were to rigid Im their principles that tbey be-lisved be-lisved that one is benetlled more te burdeuly olirab the bill of virtue thaa to bnoome rfuh and remain Ib the city of dpstructiou. bocau.e surb a strife or self-denial gives one peaoe of mind whloh cannot be disturbed. Tbey saw that a rational life should be a life of Immediate reeoa 1b every phase. To me this attitude towards life Is too rigid end too stiff. It wonld be a life of oontlnnal reasoning of wbloh la right and wblob la wrong action. I should rather let both Instinct and reasoa lead me than reason albee: to climb the bill of virtue with staff hi band wouM oanse nae nearly aa aneb misery as to live la e, olty of De situation. To alwas stop to reason an aot oat would, I think, cause just aa mncb disturbance of mind m to ooasslonally make a mistake. To do something eaob day for merely disciplined mind aad body la te me ; ipwwhat radleal. Nowaii-Baopja. fi-rertnl! sake of doing it. If the re suited dlsoipllue Iu in line or aooorda with nno'a vooatlon It la then fit 4n& proper, but to perform bu not against our will doeB not tesult In development develop-ment of mind or body unices it Is la unlsoa with our desired results'. I do not believe that "No evil can happen toagocdmau" reoBUSo I know of esses where men were truly perform ing that whiob they thought te- be good acts and wblob proved to be de' tremental lo the person wblob it was Intended to do good.a The deeda of oharity made tbem feel n sense of re-morsn re-morsn for acting thus. Tbe two views which 1 have given are the extremes of Hedonism and Rationalism. Plato and Aristotle have com-piomissd com-piomissd between Hedonism and Rationalism whloh are the moderate principles of etbles. Arletotle recognizee that maa is a feeing of (To bo continued.) |