The Little Review, September 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 6)Various
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The Little Review, September 1914 (Vol. 1, No. 6)
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Your June "leader" is not only true and big, but absolutely timely. The
essentially immoral thing should be the thing which does not contribute
in some way, however obscure, to the main current. You call it "waste."
The reason vice is disgusting is because it turns human stuff off into
an inescapable pocket. My idea is a sort of spiritual utilitarianism,
you see. Yet without the flat associations of utilitarianism because it
recognizes so many things as means to the end--joy and pain and
rebellion, for instance.
Dr. Fosters' article is superb! The fallacy of all ethical systems is
that they set up an abstract word as a virtue under all conditions.
"Unselfishness," for instance. Sometimes a fine virtue--sometimes not,
according to circumstances. We must decide, not the rigid word. Almost
all present-day fallacies proceed from a failure to recognize the fact
that the world is fluid. The individual is worthless except for his
dynamic. The static (vice) leads to death; death is merely
disorganization of the individual, so that life may be cast in new forms
better fitted to proceed.
_W. M., New York_:
I am reading THE LITTLE REVIEW month by month with much interest, and
have found many things that gave me pleasure. I admire the intellectual
standard. There is plenty of good, earnest thought in each issue. I
should like, however, to see a little more of what, for want of a better
word, I term "human." THE REVIEW is still in the colder currents of
intellectualism. I think it can stand a little more warm feeling, even
if you get it in the way of a controversy.
_F. R.-W., New York_:
I am distinctly of the opinion that THE LITTLE REVIEW is worth while. It
is one of the very few periodicals I read through from cover to cover.
If this can be made to go it will be a greater triumph for the American
people than for you. So many magazines of this type have been based upon
unsound premises. They have become the vehicle for irrepressible self
expression; they have followed freak paths of every variety; they have
turned Pegasus into a mechanical hydro-aeroplane and have flattered
themselves that, Icarus-like, they were scaling the summits to the sky
and endangering their pinions near the sun, when, as a matter of fact,
they were plunging through the sloughs below and the only evidence of
the sun was its reflection upon the mud by which they were surrounded.
With THE LITTLE REVIEW, however, I have a fine sense of clarity.
_F. D., New York_:
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