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Marx and the Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2024

Extract

‘To run slap into infinity is a momentarily annihilating experience.’ When a man has embraced an emotional faith in a supernatural, while, by force of puritanical environment, denying the natural, it is unlikely that the faith will live for long. What is not anchored to humanity is no safe and abiding refuge for a man. If he ‘lives in a large modern city where existence is insecure, and change is rapid, and further change imperative; where chaos is a standing threat, and yet in the refluent ballet of becoming every optimistic idea seems on tip-toe to be realised; where, at the very lowest one must put one’s best foot forward to keep up with the march of invention and innovation : the How challenges at every turn, and (he) is irresistibly driven into its arms.’ The Why of things no longer concerns him; he joins in the quest for that Utopia which Marxism seeks. It is at least a refuge from the denial of human values which puritanism implies.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1932 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

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Footnotes

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Poor Tom. By Edwin Muir. (Dent; 7/6.)