Excerpt from Our Destiny: The Influence of Socialism on Morals and Religion; An Essay in Ethics
" The nineteenth century so far has been nothing but a riddle." Jules Simon.
1. Leslie Stephen claims that ethical problems require to be discussed in every generation with a change of dialect. This is emphatically the case now, but the dialect must be very different from that adopted in his Science of Ethics. Events are at hand that can be, most fitly, compared with the advent of Christianity.
Three writers have discussed the future that awaits us. Mallock, in Is Life Worth Living, warns us that it will be disastrous if we do not return to the old beliefs; Morison, in The Service of Man, prophesies it will be glorious if we will only give up all religious notions, while Professor Graham, in The Creed of Science, consoles us that our moral and religious acquisitions will not be seriously threatened. I have arrived at very different and much more ennobling conclusions (for which the reader, if he be but patient, will in the course of this essay find, at all events, a sufficient number of reasons), to wit:
That Nationalism (by which I simply mean American Socialism) will be the future economic system in all civilised countries, and that it will be inaugurated, not by violence, but by enthusiasm.
That it will establish virtually the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, mainly by rendering all humanity precious to each of us - what now to all sensible people must seem an impossible feat.
That it will evolve an irresistible belief in God and Immortality which will satisfy all the instincts of the human heart as well as the most developed intelligences.
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