If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can.

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.