Middlemarch Quote Man, this book is full of astounding…
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Man, this book is full of astounding quotes. But this one, regarding Mr. Bulstrode's past, is an absolute doozy in capturing the psychological mechancism that is involved in rationalising behaviour, especially the manner in which religion is used to justify certain actions, and that regardless of belief systems, how we are all capable of such rationalising:
**"The spiritual kind of rescue was a genuine need with him. There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all, to whatever confession we belong, and whether we believe in the future perfection of our race or in the nearest date fixed for the end of the world; whether we regard the earth as a putrefying nidus for a saved remnant, including ourselves, or have a passionate belief in the solidarity of mankind."**
#entertainment
Man, this book is full of astounding quotes. But this one, regarding Mr. Bulstrode's past, is an absolute doozy in capturing the psychological mechancism that is involved in rationalising behaviour, especially the manner in which religion is used to justify certain actions, and that regardless of belief systems, how we are all capable of such rationalising:
**"The spiritual kind of rescue was a genuine need with him. There may be coarse hypocrites, who consciously affect beliefs and emotions for the sake of gulling the world, but Bulstrode was not one of them. He was simply a man whose desires had been stronger than his theoretic beliefs, and who had gradually explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with those beliefs. If this be hypocrisy, it is a process which shows itself occasionally in us all, to whatever confession we belong, and whether we believe in the future perfection of our race or in the nearest date fixed for the end of the world; whether we regard the earth as a putrefying nidus for a saved remnant, including ourselves, or have a passionate belief in the solidarity of mankind."**
#entertainment
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