Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Coming Terror, and Other Essays and Letters
The main contention in the following pages is that amount of political or social tinkering will complete process Nature chooses to work out by her own methods of conscientious evolution, and that, by present growthvoffi'asifp'fdvidential restriction, by emergence of Mob Morality and Mob Rule, those sublime methods are being indefinitely retarded, even occasionally reversed. In prop Individual, we retard the progress of the Race, destroy human character, debase human intelligence, and arrest the development of the social conscience. Sanitation in both the physical and the moral world comes of free oxygen, free sunshine, and free exercise. Knowledge comes of per sonal experience and suffering, not of political or moral dogmas, all hollow as the dogmas of any and every Church. In a word, no organization of human beings, no secular, priestly, or apostolic, can help one man to his Soul alive, ' or, what is the same thing, to save the of those he loves.
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