Immortality And the Future : the Christian Doctrine of Eternal Life
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The picture of the world present to many minds is deter- mined by physical science only, and even a great psycho- logist like Wundt fails to rise higher. The proposal has recently been made to cure the longing for immortality, which is properly a disease, by so much improving medicine and hygiene that life will be greatly lengthened, and men will be only too glad to escape. They would gradually develop an instinct for death.
168 ETERNAL LIFE of psychological fact merely, not of truth. No invest...igation of the causes of belief is relevant as such to the point whether the belief is itself a right one. It may well be that assertions of immortality were at first due to motives largely egoistic, and it is certain that even the Christian hope has often been expressed in terms savourirg of natural hedonism. But no chiliastic carica- tures or primitive egoisms have anything to do with the real issue. Virtue is not discredited by the fact that a schoolboy may be led to virtuous conduct by hope of reward or fear of punishment, and no clear thinker can suppose that faith in immortality is lowered in moral rank by the fact that its meaning has often been very badly ex- pressed.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The picture of the world present to many minds is deter- mined by physical science only, and even a great psycho- logist like Wundt fails to rise higher. The proposal has recently been made to cure the longing for immortality, which is properly a disease, by so much improving medicine and hygiene that life will be greatly lengthened, and men will be only too glad to escape. They would gradually develop an instinct for death.
168 ETERNAL LIFE of psychological fact merely, not of truth. No invest...igation of the causes of belief is relevant as such to the point whether the belief is itself a right one. It may well be that assertions of immortality were at first due to motives largely egoistic, and it is certain that even the Christian hope has often been expressed in terms savourirg of natural hedonism. But no chiliastic carica- tures or primitive egoisms have anything to do with the real issue. Virtue is not discredited by the fact that a schoolboy may be led to virtuous conduct by hope of reward or fear of punishment, and no clear thinker can suppose that faith in immortality is lowered in moral rank by the fact that its meaning has often been very badly ex- pressed.
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