Date of Award

5-1926

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

William M. Magee

Abstract

Re live today, but tomorrow shall judge us by the criterion of yesterday, by that norm which is universal, eternally and abidingly true, the end of man completely and objectively considered. We say that we have progressed. We gaze in derision at primitive man, at the barbarians, at our ancestors, and at the natives of out-of-the-way places today. Yet well may they pity us, for if we have advanced so much farther than they, our responsibility for our talents is proportionately greater. Whether we have progressed or not, I shall not discuss; but assuming such a fact on the basis of popular approval, that we have advanced, then the results of our efforts should be correspondingly greater. And how does the modern world accept this added load? Too lightly, I fear. A progressively paganized philosophy of life and a de-christianized attitude toward our fellow-man have swept this fair land and bid fair to blight its future.

Comments

Thesis presented in part fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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