The Key to the Worlds Progress Being An Essay On Historical Logic
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114, 174, 184, 243. THE CHURCH AND THE STATE 135 to each man being in his special place amid order and subordination, knit by a thousand ties to his fellow-mea No doubt, in the eighteenth century a theory arose that the maximum of public good would arise from each man seeking unhindered his own ends without any regard for the public weal. But the bitter experience of the waste of national resources, the waste of lives and goods (already described in the second chapter), is the best reply to the... imagined harmony of private self-aggrandisement and public weal. Indeed in its acute form this reckless egoism appears as revolt on the one side, and tyranny on the other, both of them lawless, both of them self-seeking, both of them in extreme opposition to Christian teaching that we should seek not our own things but the things of Christ. SECTION XLI. And this same teaching takes, so to speak, the sting out of obedience. Where reason has dis- solved the charm that threw a halo round authority, and we meet all unveiled a mere man, advanced in years, not quick to hear or see, unwieldy in body, eager for choice food, narrow in mind there is a difficulty in obeying him ; or again if, being our- selves grave with age and dignity, we are called 136 KEY TO THE WORLD'S PROGRESS on to obey an inexperienced stripling.
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