Studia Islandica - 01.06.1961, Síða 74

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F. Adler:
But the condition of all pro-
gress is experience; we must go
wrong thousand times before we
find the right. (127. bls.).
Stephan G.:
Þau reynsluspor, sem menning
manna hækka
og miða fram, er sannleikurinn
eini.
(„Hvað er sannleikur?“ Andvök-
ur II, 196. bls.).
Af þessum sökum neita þeir óskeikun gamalla rita, en
trúa á framþróunina, síaukinn þroska mannsins.
F. Adler:
Lastly, the old Ideal was stati-
onary, retrospective; it placed
its paradise at the beginning of
human history. Then the full
significance of life had been
reached; then the oracles had
spoken loudly and clearly whose
faint echoes now float like me-
mories of half forgotten melodies
to our ear; then the imperishable
truths were revealed in those
olden, golden days. Not so, says
the new Ideal.
... Far from being exemplary,
the ideas of right and wrong en-
tertained by our earliest progeni-
tors were infinitely below our
own. ... Each age added its own
to the stoek of virtue, each con-
tributed its share to swell the
treasure of mankind. (73.—74.
bls.).
Stephan G.:
Sbr. „Hvað er sannleikur?“
(Andvökur II, 195.—196. bls.).
Vit, velvilji, góðmennska, ráð-
vendni eru enginn heimanmund-
ur mannanna frá upphafi, aðeins
tamning þungrar og svipuharðr-
ar reynslu kynslóð eftir kynslóð.
(Bréf og ritgerðir II, 84. bls.).
Tvíhyggja.
F. Adler:
And like a tree are we, with
the mighty trunk of intellect, the
spreading branches of imagina-
tion, the fibrous roots of the
lower instincts, that bind us to
the earth. But the moral life is
the fruit we bear, in it our true
nature is revealed; in it we see
the purpose of our being ful-
filled. (68. bls.).
Stephan G.:
Það „tvíveldi" er til, og því má
ekki sleppa, „tvíveldinu" í okk-
ur sjálfum, stríðinu eilifa, sið-
ferðisframförinni.
(Bréf og ritgerðir III, 331. bls.).