Huxley, Aldous -- “Religion and Time,” in Christopher Isherwood, ed. Vedanta for the Western World (1945)

Dave — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 13:46:48 +0000

Nothing stands between the people’s miserable present and its glorious future, except a minority, perhaps a majority, of perverse or merely ignorant individuals. All that is necessary is to liquidate a few thousands, or it may be a few millions, of these living obstacles to progress, and then to coerce and propagandize the rest into acquiescence. When these unpleasant but necessary preliminaries are over, the governage will begin. Such is the theory that secular apocalypticism, which is the religion of the revolutionaries. But in practice, it is hardly necessary to say, the means employed positively guarantee that the end actually reached shall be profoundly different form that which the prophetic theorists envisage.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
“Religion and Time,” in Christopher Isherwood, ed. Vedanta for the Western World (1945)

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Huxley, Aldous -- “Religion and Time,” in Christopher Isherwood, ed. Vedanta for the Western World (1945)