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Updated: June 25, 2025
How would you propose to try and fathom it? Rollestone. By experiment: I know of no other way. The forces which generate emotions and ideas must possess a moral quality: the experiments must therefore be moral experiments. Germsell. How do you set to work to experimentalise morally? Rollestone.
The chemical changes would in that case have been different. Drygull. But the changes must be produced by forces acting on them. Germsell.
Pardon me, but the religion of the future must be the result of an evolutionary process, and I don't see how generalisations of past expediency are to help the evolution of humanity. Germsell. They throw light upon it; and the study of the evolutionary process so far teaches us how we may evolve in the future.
Both, as Mr Germsell will admit, are conditioned manifestations of force; but the one contains a vital element in its dynamism which the other does not.
Can you hear what Lord Fondleton is saying to Mrs Gloring at this moment? Germsell. No, and I don't want to. Fussle. Ah, there it is. You won't hear anything you don't want to. Now I can, and he ought not to say it; look how she is blushing. Oh, I forgot you are short-sighted. Well, you see, I can hear further than you, and see further than you.
Mr Germsell. Mrs Allmash asked me last night whether my thoughts had been directed to the topic which is uppermost just now in so many minds in regard to the religion of the future, and I ventured to tell her that it would be found to be contained in the generalised expediency of the past. Mr Fussle.
Why, mayn't it evolve from itself? Germsell. How can it evolve without a propulsive force behind it? The thing is too palpable an absurdity to need argument. You can no more fix limits to the origin of force than you can destroy its persistency. Germsell. All you can say of it is that it is a conditioned effect of an unconditioned cause.
Pardon me; do I understand you to say that the mental process which enabled Mr Spencer to elaborate his system of philosophy, or that the profound emotion which finds its expression in a love for humanity, are the result of physical force alone? Germsell. He says so himself, and he ought to know.
If you will only all of you listen attentively, and if Mr Germsell will have the goodness to modify to some degree the prejudiced attitude of mind common to all men of science, you will hear him as plainly as I can at this moment beating a tom-tom in his cottage in the Himalayas. Now please, Lady Fritterly, I must request a few moments of the most profound silence on the part of all.
His whole system of philosophy is nothing more nor less than the result of the liberation of certain forces produced by chemical action in the brain. Drygull. Then, if I understand you rightly, if the chemical changes which have been taking place for some years past in his brain had liberated a different set of forces, we should have had altogether a different philosophy. Germsell.
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