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the altruist in politics-第2部分
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step。 When they shall once have entered within it; when the key
shall have been turned upon their spirit and have confined them
in narrower straits than even Puritanism could have done; it will
be left for them to find; in their blind obedience and passive
submission; the recompense for the singleness of character; the
foresight; and the energy; that they have left behind them。
In almost every phase of life; this doctrine of political
altruists is equally impracticable and pernicious。 In its social
results; it involves the substitution of the community in the
family's present position。 In its political aspects; it involves
the absolute dominion of the State over the actions and property
of its subjects。 Thus; though claiming to be an exaltation of
the so…called natural rights of liberty and equality; it is in
reality their emphatic debasement。 It teaches that thoughtless
docility is a recompense for stunted enterprise。 It magnifies
material good at the cost of every rational endowment。 It
inculcates a self…denial that must result in dwarfing the
individual to a mere instrument in the hands of the State for the
benefit of his fellows。 No such organization of society…no
organization that fails to take note of the fact that man must
have scope for the exercise and development of his faculties…no
such organization of society can ever reach a permanent success。
However beneficent its motives; the hypothesis with which it
starts can never be realized。 The aphorism of Emerson; 〃Churches
have been built; not upon principles; but upon tropes;〃 is as
true in the field of politics as it is in the field of religion。
In a like figurative spirit; the followers of communism have
reared their edifice; and; looking back upon the finished
structure; seeking to discern the base on which it rests; the
critic finds; not principles; but tropes。 The builders have
appealed to a future that has no warrant in the past; and fixing
their gaze upon the distant dreamland; captivated by the vision
there beheld; entranced by its ideal effulgence; their eyes were
blinded to the real conditions of the human problem they had set
before them。 Their enemies have not been slow to note such
weakness and mistake; and perhaps it may serve to clear up
misconceptions; perhaps it may serve to lessen cant and open the
way for fresh and vigorous thought; if we shall once convince
ourselves that altruism cannot be the rule of life; that its
logical result is the dwarfing of the individual man; and that
not by the death of human personality can we hope to banish the
evils of our day; and to realize the ideal of all existence; a
nobler or purer life。
End
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