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‘Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?’
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
But supposing one tries to live by Pantheistic philosophy? Does it lead to a complacent Hegelian optimism?
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
I hope, said the third, that your wanderings in lonely places do not mean that you have any of the romantic virus still in your blood. His name was Mr. Humanist.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
John – I'm trying to find the Island in the West. Sensible – You refer, no doubt to some aesthetic experience.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
The wraith of Sigmund said. “You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.”
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
Our father was married twice,' continued Humanist. 'Once to a lady named Epichaerecacia, and afterwards to Euphuia.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
I am sorry that my convictions do not allow me to repeat my friend's offer, said one of the others. But I have had to abandon the humanitarian and egalitarian fancies. His name was Mr. Neo-Classical.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)
Then he tried to recall the lessons of Mr. Wisdom. “it is I myself, eternal Spirit, who drives this Me, the slave, along that ledge. I ought not to care whether he falls and breaks his neck or not. It is not he that is real, it is I – I – I.
The Pilgrim's Regress (1933)