The University Magazine
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Excerpt from The University Magazine: 1912 It may seem paradoxical to suggest of a doctrine essentially impatient of the absolute that it bids fair to become the chief bulwark of an absolutism the more tyrannical because it is false. Yet a democracy forgetting freedom and a philosophy careless of principles do, in fact, go hand in hand together. Nowhere better than in politics could the pragmatic creed be applied; and nowhere does it become more immediately clear that pragmatism has no creed. In this it is the motto of democracy in action, which is abandoning more and more not only creeds as creeds but even the very creed that brought it into being. In doing so democracy threatens to entrammel men for a time more effectively than ever they were trammelled in the past, through the very optimism of its crude practicality; seeking to achieve in one generation and by extraneous rules the blessings which only the long discipline of character can ever bring to the world. Lovers of liberty, then, if they would serve her now, must see that a philosophy without a standard, a wisdom that will not criticize, a doctrine that will not lead, is the greatest foe of all they have to fight. An irreverent critic once remarked that doubtless we should all like to be pragmatists if only we knew what we should be if we were pragmatists. I am sure that it would be very easy for any accommodating person to find out that he was on the whole a pragmatist. But with a full reserve of my right to be accommodating on some other occasion, the present purpose requires a sterner frame of mind. Pragmatism is a big belief quite satisfactory to those only whose belief is still bigger. It is, I take it, the doctrine that an idea is true if it works. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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