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H.G. Wells places his hopes for
a world government on yet another
hope: a new universal rational
religion.
From the _Outline of History_, 3rd ed:
p.1089
"But out of the trouble and tragedy
of this present time there may
emerge a moral and intellectual
revival, a religious revival, of a
simplicity and scope to draw
together men of alien races and now
discrete traditions into one common
and sustained way of living for the
world's service."
"Religious emotion -- stripped of
corruptions and freed from its last
priestly entanglements -- may
presently blow through life again
like a great wind, bursting the
doors and flinging open the
shutters of the individual life,
and making many things possible and
easy that in these present days of
exhaustion seem almost too
difficult to desire."
This notion of a world religion
seems very peculiar to my eyes,
since I would've believed Wells a
rationalist along the lines of
Arthur C. Clarke. GODDEATH
Is Wells a believer in the Big Lie? (1/96)
Or is his notion of "religion"
something closer to what I would But then, I've been inclined
call "philosophy"? to say things like "The
measure of a manifesto
is the actions it produces,
not it's internal consistency
or conformance to some
rational criteria."
MANIFESTO
What's the difference between
a manifesto and a religion?
TRUTH
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