Democracy and Tradition by Stout Jeffrey;George Robert P.;

Author:Stout, Jeffrey;George, Robert P.; [Stout, Jeffrey;George, Robert P.;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0691102937
Publisher: Princeton UP
Published: 2013-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

A Conditioned Rectitude

[A]lthough the commands of the Conscience are essentially absolute, they are historically limitary. Wisdom does not seek a literal rectitude, but an useful, that is, a conditioned one, such as the faculties of man and the constitution of things will warrant. … [T]he existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born. Reform converses with possibilities, perchance with impossibilities; but here is sacred fact. This also was true, or it could not be: it had life in it, or it could not have existed; it has life in it, or it could not continue.

—Emerson

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