The South-African crisis - pagina 72

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN

68

this

the very thing tiiat the opinion of to-day tends to

is

do with ciple

CRISIS.

So long as moral principle and the prinof right sought their point of support in God it.

and in Revelation, they were clothed with an objective character, and imposed upon us an authority before

which nations But

all

as well as individuals

had only to bend.

changed since the moment when Schleier-

is

among the Protestants, placed all our theoloknowledge, including that of moralitj^, under the empire of subjectivism. Martensen, the Danish Luthemacher,

gical

ran bishop, drew from that the indisputable inference,

when he

said

that "what

is

permitted or prohibited

the point of view of morality can only be indivi-

in

dually determined It is well

i)."

known how

this theory has

been strained

stamp of Bismarck from and Imperiahsm with it. The moment that

to dispense statesmen of the all

obligation to "bourgeois" morality

declares

right stop,

itself

ceases

and

is

content

;

to be a barrier that compels you to changed into a piece of theatrical scenery

that every actor moves about according to the needs of his performance. Imperialism, even the

has

vagant,

that

in

a perfectly free hand.

case

how

statesman

practical

what manage

the

who

will

take

suits

will

so

to

any care like

1)

Mr.

Etik,

i.

stage likes

is

him where he

carr}''

out

580.

Kinley

explains

matters

arranged.

little

The

to flout every theory

his

for the rights of others.

Mac

It

most extra-

An to

finds

j)rojects

it,

and

without

earnest theorist you,

at

Omaha,

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