Ah. On his reply to his work "The Heretic".
The particular quotation is part of a paragraph. Before the quotemined section he says:
In case the point is not clear, an historic example may illustrate
it. The French Revolution was really an heroic and decisive thing,
because the Jacobins willed something definite and limited.
They desired the freedoms of democracy, but also all the vetoes
of democracy. They wished to have votes and NOT to have titles.
Republicanism had an ascetic side in Franklin or Robespierre
as well as an expansive side in Danton or Wilkes. Therefore they
have created something with a solid substance and shape, the square
social equality and peasant wealth of France. But since then the
revolutionary or speculative mind of Europe has been weakened by
shrinking from any proposal because of the limits of that proposal.
Liberalism has been degraded into liberality. Men have tried
to turn "revolutionise" from a transitive to an intransitive verb.
The Jacobin could tell you not only the system he would rebel against,
but (what was more important) the system he would NOT rebel against,
the system he would trust.
The sentence that precedes the quotemined section is significant.
The Jacobin could tell you not only the system he would rebel against, but (what was more important) the system he would NOT rebel against, the system he would trust.
Leaving that out is a clear indication of obfuscation.
When I ask for an example of some Absolute Morality, I do not deny absolutes. I have repeatedly said that there are absolutes, and further, that humans can imagine absolutes, IDEALs, that we also know to be impossible in reality. To repeat some examples, I have pointed to the Ideal of the Perfectly Straight Line or the Absolutely Smooth Surface, neither of which can exist in reality yet which can be easily imagined by most.
Aslan is not a
Tame Lion
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