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A Preface to Morals

by Walter Lippmann

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Appendix — Acknowledgments

At the suggestion of the publishers, the references which follow have been segregated in an appendix instead of being scattered as footnotes through the text. They felt, rightly enough, I think, that in a book of this character the purpose of the notes was to acknowledge indebtedness for the material cited rather than to support the argument, and that the reader would prefer not to have the text encumbered by the apparatus of a kind of scholarship to which the author makes no pretensions.

While these notes, except in a few instances, refer only to matter actually used in the text, they are also an approximate bibliography of the works which I have consulted. I wish I could adequately acknowledge the obligation I owe to my teachers, William James, George Santayana, and Graham Wallas, though that perhaps is self-evident. I should like to thank Miss Jane Mather and Miss Orrie Lashin for help in the preparation of the manuscript. I am under special obligation to my wife, Faye Lippmann, without whose assistance I could not have completed the book.

W. L.

New York City, January, 1929.

Notes

PAGELINE
4 32Quoted in Irving Babbitt, Rousseau and Romanticism, p. 181.
5 4John Herman Randall Jr., The Making of the Modern Mind, p. 118.
5 21From The City of Dreadful Night, cited, Babbitt, op. cit., p. 332.
5 24For discussion of this theme, cf. Babbitt, op. cit. passim.
5 29Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Act III, Scene IV.
6 12From Byron, The Island, cited, Babbitt, op. cit., p. 186.
6 16From T. H. Huxley, Address on University Education, delivered, 1876, at the formal opening of Johns Hopkins University. I am indebted to Mr. Henry Hazlitt for the quotation.
7 11Cited, Babbitt, op. cit., p. 341.
7 20Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, LXIX, cited, Babbitt, op. cit., p. 261.
11 12Cf. W. R. Inge, The Platonic Tradition in English Religious Thought.
11 19W. C. Greene, Introduction to Selection from the Dialogues of Plato, p. xxiv.
13 27Calvin, Institutes, Book IV, Chapter X, Paragraph 7, cited A. C. M’Giffert, Protestant Thought Before Kant, p. 90.
21 32Harry Emerson Fosdick, Adventurous Religion, p. 59.
24 8W. C. Brownell, Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. XXX, p. 112, cited in footnote, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 115.
24 25William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 518.
25 12James, op. cit., p. 519.
26 7Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, pp. 249–250.
27 12Bertrand Russell, A Free Man’s Worship, in Mysticism and Logic, p. 54.
27 27Kirsopp Lake, The Religion of Yesterday and Tomorrow.
30 2W. R. Inge, Science, Religion and Reality, p. 388.
31 3Cf. W. B. Riley, The Faith of the Fundamentalists, Times Current History, June, 1927.
34 18Fundamentalism and the Faith, Commonweal, Aug. 19, 1925.
35 25George Santayana, Reason in Religion, p. 97.
37 22The material in this section is taken from Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Modern Use of the Bible.
40 2Fosdick, op. cit., p. 83.
42 5Fosdick, The Desire for Immortality, in Adventurous Religion.
44 10W. R. Inge, The Philosophy of Plotinus, Vol. II, p. 166.
44 23W. R. Inge, The Platonic Tradition in English Religious Thought.
47 30Fosdick, The Modern Use of the Bible.
51 22Cf. Rudolf Otto, Chrysostom on the Inconceivable in God, in The Idea of the Holy. Appendix I; cf. also the Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. VIII, p. 452; cf. also William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lecture III.
56 21Lord Acton, inaugural Lecture on the Study of History, in Lectures on Modern History.
70 29Otto Gierke, Political Theories of the Middle Ages—Translated by F. W. Maitland, p. 7.
71 14From the Song of Roland, cited, Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, p. 29.
72 18For an analysis of the texts on which this claim was based, cf. James T. Shotwell and Louise Ropes Loomis, The See of Peter.
73 18Cited in A. C. M’Giffert, Protestant Thought Before Kant, p. 44.
74 7For a comprehensive condemnation by the Holy See of modern opinions which undermine the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, see the Syllabus of Pius IX (1864) and the Syllabus of Pius X (1907). The Syllabus of 1864 lists and condemns eighty principal errors of our time, and is described by the Catholic Encyclopedia (Vol. XIV, p. 369) as opposition “to the high tide of that intellectual movement of the Nineteenth Century which strove to sweep away the foundations of all human and Divine order.” The Syllabus of 1907 condemns sixty-five propositions of the Modernists which would “destroy the foundations of all natural and supernatural knowledge.” (Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIV, p. 370.) It should be noted that there is difference of opinion among Catholic scholars as to the binding power of these two pronouncements, and also that their meaning is open to elaborate interpretation.
75 2Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XIV, p. 766.
76 20J. N. Figgis, Political Thought in the Sixteenth Century, Cambridge Modern History, Vol. III, p. 743.
79 4Cf. J. N. Figgis, op. cit., p. 742.
80 20For an able recent exposition by an American of this theory of absolutism, cf. Charles C. Marshall, The Roman Catholic Church in the Modern State.
85 24Cited R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, p. 44.
86 13Cited Tawney, op. cit., p. 243.
98 6The facts cited in this section are from: E. Mâle, L’Art Religieux du XIIIeme Siècle en France, and L’Art Religieux de la Fin du Moyen-Age en France. But cf. G. G. Coulton, Art and the Reformation.
102 28Prometheus Unbound, cited A. N. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, p. 119.
104 23R. H. Wilenski, The Modern Movement in Art, p. 5.
109 10Cf. Diego Rivera, The Revolution in Painting, in Creative Art, Vol. IV, No. 1. “And there is absolutely no reason to be frightened because the subject is so essential. On the contrary, precisely because the subject is admitted as a prime necessity, the artist is absolutely free to create a thoroughly plastic form of art. The subject is to the painter what the rails are to a locomotive. He cannot do without it. In fact, when he refuses to seek or accept a subject, his own plastic methods and his own esthetic theories become his subject instead. And even if he escapes them, he himself becomes the subject of his work. He becomes nothing but an illustrator of his own state of mind, and in trying to liberate himself he falls into the worst form of slavery. That is the cause of all the boredom which emanates from so many of the large expositions of modern art, a fact testified to again and again by the most different temperaments.”
109 18Bernard Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, p. 19.
111 4Cf. R. H. Wilenski, The Modern Movement in Art, p. 119.
116 4Cf. George Santayana, Reason in Religion, pp. 92 et seq.
119 28Cf. Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. X, p. 342.
123 17Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, p. 257.
127 2A. S. Eddington, Stars and Atoms, p. 121.
128 1John Herman Randall Jr., The Making of the Modern Mind, p. 100.
128 9Epist. ad Can Grand, cited in footnote to Paradiso in the Temple Classics.
129 3Cf. P. W. Bridgman, The Logic of Modern Physics, p. 45.
129 23C. S. Peirce, How to Make Our Ideas Clear in Chance, Love and Logic, edited by Morris R. Cohen.
130 4Bridgman, op. cit., p. 38.
135 2Cited L. R. Farnell, The Attributes of God, p. 275.
137 31Cf. M. C. Otto, Natural Laws and Human Hopes, pp. 32 et seq.
146 29The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XII, p. 345.
147 29Cf. B. L. Manning, The People’s Faith in the Time of Wyclif.
148 3Fosdick, Adventurous Religion, p. 85 et seq.
148 9Santayana, Reason in Religion, p. 43.
148 17L. R. Farnell, The Attributes of God, p. 15.
149 14Manning, op. cit.
159 2Herbert Asbury, A Methodist Saint, The Life of Bishop Asbury, p. 265.
160 20Cf. Encyclopedia Britannica, “Asceticism.”
161 17Cf. Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. I, p. 768.
162 5Quoted in Irving Babbitt, Rousseau and Romanticism, p. 45.
162 19Rabelais, Book II, Chapter 34.
163 6Cited Henry Osborn Taylor, Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century, Vol. I, p. 330.
163 25Babbitt, op. cit., p. 161.
163 28Cf. Dora Russell, The Right to be Happy.
164 5Cf. Bertrand Russell, Political Ideals.
165 17T. W. Rhys Davids, Buddhism, p. 111.
166 22Ethics, Book II, Chapter 9.
177 3S. Freud, Formulierung über die zwei Prinzipien des psychischen Geschehens, 1911, Jahrb, Bd., I, s. 411.
177 10S. Ferenczi, Stages in the Development of the Sense of Reality, 1913. In Contributions to Psychoanalysis, translated by Dr. Ernest Jones.
192 13Spinoza, Ethics, Part V, Prop. XLII.
192 23Cf. T. W. Rhys Davids, Buddhism, p. 110.
192 31Confucian Analects, Book II, Chapter 4.
195 25A. N. Whitehead, Religion in the Making, pp. 15–16.
196 20Analects VII, XX.
197 24Ethics, Part V, Prop. XLII.
199 19Cf. T. W. Rhys Davids, Buddhism, p. 84.
199 30C. Snouck Hurgronje, Mohammedanism, p. 82.
200 18Republic, VI, 495, 504.
205 5Cf. J. Burnet, Philosophy in The Legacy of Greece, edited by R. W. Livingstone, p. 67.
218 9Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Book Third, Translation by H. A. J. Munro.
220 1Spinoza, Ethics, Part V, Prop. III.
220 4Id., Part V, Prop. VI.
224 28Aristotle, Ethics, Book IV, Chapter III.
232 18Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West.
233 25C. A. Beard, Is Western Civilization in Peril? Harper’s Magazine, August, 1928.
234 17H. G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol. II, pp. 394–5.
235 30A. N. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, p. 4.
236 10W. T. Sedgwick and H. W. Tyler, A Short History of Science, p. 269. Cf. Martha Ornstein, The Role of Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century.
237 7J. B. Bury, The Idea of Progress, p. 330.
238 16For a most illuminating description of the behavior of a great scientific investigator, cf. Claude Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine.
238 26Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic, p. 42.
240 19Cf. Graham Wallas, Our Social Heritage, Chapter I.
241 12John Herman Randall Jr., The Making of the Modern Mind, p. 279.
242 24Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 9.
245 4Cited in R. H. Tawney, Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, p. 286.
265 19Otto Gierke, Political Theories of the Middle Age, Translated by F. W. Maitland, p. 23.
266 9Id., p. 88.
266 12Cf. J. W. Garner, Introduction to Political Science, p. 92.
267 7For a discussion of the concept of sovereignty in the modern world, cf. Otto Gierke, Political Theories of the Middle Ages; J. N. Figgis, Churches in the Modern State; Lord Acton, History of Freedom and Other Essays; H. J. Laski, A Grammar of Politics; Kung Chuan Hsiao, Political Pluralism.
274 11William Hard, Who’s Hoover? p. 193.
280 31Reflections on the French Revolution, cf. Garner, op. cit., p. 112.
288 6Genesis XXXVIII; cf. Harold Cox, The Problem of Population, pp. 208–211, for an interpretation of the story of Onan in the light of Deut. XXV, which shows that the crime of Onan was not the spilling of his seed, but a breach of Jewish tribal law in refusing “to perform the duty of a husband’s brother” with his brother’s widow.
289 1Psalm 127, cf. Cox, op. cit.
289 9The historical data are from A. M. Carr-Saunders, The Population Problem, Chapter I.
295 6Havelock Ellis, Love as an Art, in Count Hermann Keyserling’s The Book of Marriage, p. 388.
295 21Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. II, p. 10.
297 3C. E. M. Joad, Thrasymachus, or The Future of Morals, pp. 54–55.
297 15Havelock Ellis, The Family, in Whither Mankind, p. 216.
299 4Quoted in Judge Ben B. Lindsey and Wainwright Evans, The Companionate Marriage, p. 210.
302 18Cf. Alfred Weber, History of Philosophy, p. 72.
304 24Love—Or the Life and Death of a Value, Atlantic Monthly, August, 1928.
310 14Reason in Society, p. 22.
313 6W. R. Inge, The Philosophy of Plotinus, Vol. II, p. 161.
320 15John Keats, Letters to John Taylor, Feb. 27, 1818—in Oxford Book of English Prose, No. 379.

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