
“There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.”
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 59.
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), Modern Science and Pantheism, p.79-80
“There is a radical dualism between the empirical nature of man and its moral nature.”
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 59.
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)
“Genuine gold does not exist, children, he said. Gold is by its nature not genuine.”
Brekkukotsannáll (The Fish Can Sing) (1957)
Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.4 Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction?, p. 143
Context: Primitive Christianity cherished an ardent hope of a radically new era, and within its limits sought to realize a social life on a new moral basis. Thus Christianity as an historical movement was launched with all the purpose and hope, all the impetus and power, of a great revolutionary movement, pledged to change the world-as-it-is into the world-as-it-ought-to-be.
Il est à peu près impossible de constituer systématiquement une morale naturelle. La nature n'a pas de principes. Elle ne nous fournit aucune raison de croire que la vie humaine est respectable. La nature, indifférente, ne fait nulle distinction du bien et du mal.
La Révolte des Anges [The Revolt of the Angels] (1914), ch. XXVII