Vital lies : studies of some varieties of recent obscurantism
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WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR HORTUS THE HANGINGVIT^E, OR, GARDENS THE ENCHANTED WOODS THE SPIRIT OF ROME HAUNTINGS: FANTASTIC STORIES THE SENTIMENTAL TRAVELLER POPE JACYNTH AND OTHER FAN- TASTIC TALES GENIUS LOCI : NOTES ON PLACES AND OTHER TOLIMBO, ESSAYS, WHICH IS ARIADNE INADDED MANTUA LAURUS NOBILIS: CHAPTERS ON ART AND LIFE FANCIES ANDRENAISSANCE, STUDIES THE COUNTESS OF ALBANY ALTHEA: DIALOGUES ON ASPIRA- TIONS AND DUTIES VANITAS POLITE : INCLUDSTORIES, ING A FRIVOLOUS CONVERSA TION BEAUTY AND UGLINESS VITAL LIES STUDIES OF SOME VARIETIES OF RECENT OBSCURANTISM 6 & VERNON LEE IVOL. LONDON: JOHN THE BODLEY HEADLANE, NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY TORONTO: BELL & COCKBURN MCMXI1 inHow then we devise one of those falsehoodsmay the hour of I which we ofneed, said, lately spoke just TI whichone lie et>royal [ycvvaiov \f/ev8ofi.evovs] may if at ratedeceive the that be andrulers, possible, any the rest of the ? city iii.Plato, Republic, 414 s(Jowett Translation). Im the vital lie in him.Celling. fostering Vital lie ? Is that what said ?Gregtrs. you Yes I said vital lie for know,Relling. illusion, you is the stimulating principle. The Wild Duck.

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WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
HORTUS THE HANGINGVIT^E, OR,
GARDENS
THE ENCHANTED WOODS
THE SPIRIT OF ROME
HAUNTINGS: FANTASTIC STORIES
THE SENTIMENTAL TRAVELLER
POPE JACYNTH AND OTHER FAN-
TASTIC TALES
GENIUS LOCI : NOTES ON PLACES
AND OTHER TOLIMBO, ESSAYS,
WHICH IS ARIADNE INADDED
MANTUA
LAURUS NOBILIS: CHAPTERS ON
ART AND LIFE
FANCIES ANDRENAISSANCE,
STUDIES
THE COUNTESS OF ALBANY
ALTHEA: DIALOGUES ON ASPIRA-
TIONS AND DUTIES
VANITAS POLITE
: INCLUDSTORIES,
ING A FRIVOLOUS CONVERSA
TION
BEAUTY AND UGLINESSVITAL LIES
STUDIES OF SOME
VARIETIES OF RECENT
OBSCURANTISM 6 &
VERNON LEE
IVOL.
LONDON: JOHN THE BODLEY HEADLANE,
NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY
TORONTO: BELL & COCKBURN MCMXI1inHow then we devise one of those falsehoodsmay
the hour of I which we ofneed, said, lately spoke just
TI whichone lie et>royal [ycvvaiov \f/ev8ofi.evovs] may
if at ratedeceive the that be andrulers, possible, any
the rest of the ?
city
iii.Plato, Republic, 414
s(Jowett Translation).
Im the vital lie in him.Celling. fostering
Vital lie ? Is that what said ?Gregtrs. you
Yes I said vital lie for know,Relling. illusion, you
is the stimulating principle.
The Wild Duck.Ibsen,
Turniull &* Printers,Spears, EdinburghTO THE MEMORY OF MY FEIEND
VAILATIGIOVANNI
BETTER THAN ANYONE EXPLAINEDWHO, ELSE,
THE BETWEENINCOMPATIBILITY
" WILLING TO BELIEVE"
AND
"MAKING ONE S IDEAS CLEAR"PREFACE
is for some ofever invalidating part
its because it is for everstatements, perfecting
SCIENCEtheir whole and as it takes; reason, develops,
its own self as withfor its criticism,subject asking,
Hume and and now with theBerkeley, Kant, Prag
matism Peirce : orof What can we know ? rather,
How do we know ? and advantakingEncouraged by,
of the minds shaken in theirthis,tage reluctantly
are about for excuses tothemhabits,religious laying
disbelieve whatever has made them unbelievers. They
sreason criticism of its own nature and methodsallege
to discredit reason s conclusions. that ifThey argue
is made man it must be worthreligion by re-making.
ofPhilological exegesis, anthropological study myths
and andinstitutions, psychology metaphysical analysis,
and all the sciences which have undermined what
used to be called are now invoked toreligious truths,
re-instate some of them in the ofportion garb
desirable and valuable errors.
Some of these unable to maintain that thethinkers,
ideas which to are their backs to thetrue,they cling put
wall and that their value is symbolic,explain mythical,
in their false.short, dependent upon being partiallyviii Vital Lies
Another or the same at another momentgroup group
refuse to the at leastorforgo compelling power,
the of the word true and thesesound, ;reassuring
their to truth in such aapply logic re-defining way
as to include and efficacious andedifying fallacy
falsehood.
It is to both these andgroups, any cross-groups
Iderived from that venture to the namethem, apply
of becauseObscurantists, increase,they employ, they
for- emotional and sometimes aestheticand, reasons,
a certain amount of or atdarkness,they prefer,
a a aall events, convenient, reposeful, suggestive
intellectual penumbra.
these thinkers have attachedMoreover, themselves,
without to the school whichexception, philosophical
makes the central and ultimate andLife paramount
Hence I take the ofmystery. liberty symbolizing
creedsthe various to orthemselves,vague (clung by
recommended for the use of of these intellectualothers)
Obscurantists in the formula Ibsen s Doctorgiven by
and and these studies ofthem, them,Helling, calling
"
Vital Lies."
March 1912.THEMATIC TABLE OF
CONTENTS
VOL. I
FIRST PART
THEORETICAL OBSCURANTISM
CHAPTEE I
PAGE
THE TWO PRAGMATISMS
. . 7
theDistinguishes intended toPragmatism "make our
"
ideas clear from the to thejustify
"will to believe."
CHAPTEE II
WHAT IS TRUTH ?
5Q
Deals with the "will to believe" or "what it would
be better to believe," such obscurantistdistinguishing
Pragmatism.
CHAPTEE III
THE TRUTHS OF MYSTICISM . 91
"Shows what sort of ideas are considered better to
believe" and recommended to our "will to believe."x Vital Lies
CHAPTER IV
PAGE
FRUITS FOR LIFE .... 145
Shows that obscurantism turns to not the truthprofit
of but their of action.ideas, power determining
SECOND PART
APPLIED OBSCURANTISM
CHAPTER I
FATHER TYRRELL AND MODERNISM . . 161
"
"Shows the will to believe in its most candid and
the believer hoodwinked hisrespectable form, being by
own desires and habits.imperfectly recognized
VOL. II
CHAPTER II
MR CRAWLEY AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL APOLOGETICS 3
Shows the man of science asrecommending, racially
beliefs of which he has himself demonstratedbeneficial,
the in the of man.origin superstitions primitive
IIICHAPTER
MONSIEUR SOREL AND THE SYNDICALIST MYTH 61
Shows the and Moralistphilosophical propractical
that a because it can never beclaiming only myth,
is of a sufficient increment of virtue.realized, productive

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