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 we can refer, rather than subjective reason which reasons towards certain conclusions. So to obey the society and the state, even if it be a police state, that is correct. Obedience is rational, disobedience is irrational. And the rational is the real, rather than the real is rational! These are basic concepts, which he gave to us, which reduce conscience to a farce. That is, conscience was thoroughly disintegrated.
All psychologists know we have a small, funny adage in Woodworths Psychology at the beginning which is studied elementarily, that psychology firstly had a soul, it was considered to be the science of the soul. It lost its soul and got a mind, and psychology was called the science of the mind. Then it lost its mind and has some behaviour of a kind. We all study some physiological behaviour and call it psychology. Even so, conscience previously was the voice of God; then it became the maxims of reason; and finally it has become nothing but the Vox Populi, the voice of the people is the voice of God.
The denigration, if I may say so, of conscience, is complete to day. And the voice of the people, whether it is rational or irrational, is the voice of God. That is the later development, which we have got. Parliamentary government is based upon that which is rational, and emerges out of the contradictions of society and of debate. But actually we find that it is not rationality which is now prevalent but a clash of irrationalities trying to get into a compromise which is called a medley of conduct. Therefore we are undecided as to what is the measure, what is the point of reference by which we can act in this world. Is there any fulcrum on which you can base your whole behaviour? We are a disintegrated people; disintegrated in the soul, disintegrated in the mind, disintegrated in the body. And if now you see no firm conduct, and religions merely pamper to these dilations of what I call reason, and instinct, and popular will, one can hardly do justice to the individual character of the human being whose sorrows are never attended to by anybody. In trying to bring happiness, we produce unhappiness. In producing more and more, we produce scarcity more and more, scarcity which ought not to be there logically, mathematically, unfortunately is
there. Everybody knows it.































































































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