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"I think," he said, "that I am getting my philosophy into shape." "My dear man!" "Yes. I have tacked some new contours on to my Darwinian pragmatism." Alzugaray, in whom every treasure-trove of his friend's always produced great surprise, stood staring naively at him. "Yes, I am building up my system," Caesar went on, "a system within relative truth. It is clear." "Let's hear what it is."
"New Thought" proposes a development of the whole natural man, and thrives by the practical test of "pragmatism."
'God's in his heaven; all's right with the world! THAT'S the heart of your theology, and for that you need no rationalist definitions. Why shouldn't we all of us, rationalists as well as pragmatists, confess this? Pragmatism, so far from keeping her eyes bent on the immediate practical foreground, as she is accused of doing, dwells just as much upon the world's remotest perspectives.
This conception is put forward now in philosophical literature as a new and independent point of view. The point of view is only in process of being hardened into a theory; but, under the name of Pragmatism, it has already become the subject of a vigorous propaganda. With the value of this doctrine as a general theory of reality we need not at present concern ourselves.
This bald summary of the thought-destroying forces of our time would not be complete without some reference to pragmatism; for though I have here used and should everywhere defend the pragmatist method as a preliminary guide to truth, there is an extreme application of it which involves the absence of all truth whatever. My meaning can be put shortly thus.
On pragmatic principles we cannot reject any hypothesis if consequences useful to life flow from it. Universal conceptions, as things to take account of, may be as real for pragmatism as particular sensations are. They have indeed no meaning and no reality if they have no use. But if they have any use they have that amount of meaning.
"You preach a kind of political pragmatism," she said as he paused. "Pragmatism? That's a muscular word, but I don't know it. I wonder if Robinson Crusoe discovered it." "If Robinson Crusoe didn't discover it, he lived it," she rejoined gaily; and then, as the voice of Mrs.
The former, or 'pluralistic' belief, was the one that my pragmatism favored. Both beliefs confirm our strenuous moods. Pluralism actually demands them, since it makes the world's salvation depend upon the energizing of its several parts, among which we are.
If such an hypothesis were legitimate, total oneness would appear at the end of things rather than at their origin. After discussing the unity of the universe in this pragmatic way, you ought to see why I said in my second lecture, borrowing the word from my friend G. Papini, that pragmatism tends to UNSTIFFEN all our theories.
"And as for your other authority, your ordinary man, when he reads modern philosophy, says to himself, this does not conflict with science? But he gets no hint, when he goes to most churches, that there is, between the two, no real quarrel, and he turns away in despair. He may accept the pragmatism of James, the idealism of Royce, or even what is called neo realism.
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