It is
a social scheme of co-operative work genuinely to be done. Will you
join the procession? Will you trust yourself and trust the other
agents enough to face the risk?"
Should you in all seriousness, if participation in such a world were
proposed to you, feel bound to reject it as not safe enough? Would
you say that, rather than be part and parcel of so fundamentally
pluralistic and irrational a universe, you preferred to relapse into
the slumber of nonentity from which you had been momentarily aroused
by the tempter's voice?
Of course if you are normally constituted, you would do nothing of
the sort. There is a healthy-minded buoyancy in most of us which
such a universe would exactly fit. We would therefore accept the
offer--"Top! und schlag auf schlag!" It would be just like the world
we practically live in; and loyalty to our old nurse Nature would
forbid us to say no. The world proposed would seem 'rational' to us
in the most living way.
Most of us, I say, would therefore welcome the proposition and add
our fiat to the fiat of the creator. Yet perhaps some would not; for
there are morbid minds in every human collection, and to them the
prospect of a universe with only a fighting chance of safety would
probably make no appeal.
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