Travel Notes and Way Stations - A Rational Ethic Vol II

We moderns are reluctant to accept that a truly creative motivation affectively underlies our various deplorable aggressions and depressions. This sums up our tragic predicament. It is as if a special dispensation were required before we understand reality as not based on appearances but on faith and good spirit. In the presence of those who do understand we are more likely to catch on because our depression and aggression rubs off on them and 'infects' them whereupon they deal with this rationally within themselves before dealing with us then mercifully. Their ethical behaviour by personal example and good works instils in us a desire for moral integrity and ethical power. We gain a sense of a taste for the satisfaction from doing good. We become capable of sustaining that extra dimension to our being which corresponds to the foundation of reality. If we choose we can allow our thought-processes to be schooled as we read this work so that we may be cleansed of the modern evil that is criticism.