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MY IRRELIGION. WHAT THE PLAIN MAN WANTS,
NOVEMBER 6TH
·1945
THE INDUSTRIAL SITUATION.
AT HOME. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE POSITION,
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When he has finished his dictating be en sit down and (on the wrapper) pro-, ronuce his work very good. Nothing re [BY FATHER ROYALD EVER.1
strains him except the canons of Art, and When the Millennium arcite as there those not much. What wander, if such a
[RY AG, GARDINER..}. is every reason to think it will before man thinks of the supernatural world us
A correspondent puts to me a question, long, there will no doubt, be an Enter a continuation of his last best-seller, 'a Jocorum, which will be a blessing to us world whose conditions his own fanes can which I will not unch try to answer writing fellows, and still more to the impose, a world which will be the mirrors employ as a peg on which, to hang public. All jokes, but especially ance of his own mind "Not even of his mind, some commenta "Here" he says, is dotes, will have to be entered at Station necessarily: it may be only of his mood. the country getting deeper and dzeper ers, Hall, and it will be illegal to release When Mr. Wells wrote Liod the In into diffulties, trade declining look at fresh, visible King," it was doubtful whether it the latest returns), unemployment increas one without giving its age:
reflected his mind; it was quite certaining, the crisis in the coal trade bought "new-laid," "pre-war," and so on..
As it is, you never know which stories that it reflected his mood. He wanted a of for a few months at the expense of a are chestnuts This one, for example, God to beat the Germans with. that I am leading up to, shout the man at Cowes (you're sure you don't1) who met an acquaintance of humble origin and plebeian speech, wearing the blazer, or pea-jacket, or whatever it is, of the Rojal Yacht Club. He protested in horror, ex- plaining that that sort of thing wasn't done; and next day, met the same acquaintance in the same blazer, but with the letters M.O.B.Y.C. embroidered over the pocket. The wearer, when challenge for an explanation, said the letters stood for "My Own"-oh, you do know is Then why couldn't you have said so at first i
I have been irresistibly reminded of this story by the recent action of a morning
THE RESULT.A
WHAT BUSINESS MEY WOULD DO
If one of Mr. Selfridge's departmenta in Oxford Street was unprofitable bo would not give it a subsidy from the rest of the business to enable it to exist as m pauper department. He would say that the department had to he overhauled and modernised, and made to stand on its own legs. It must not be allowed to be a drain on the whole enterprise.
Glaim to bes
1! one department une fed, and the end of that is the bankruptcy sponded, others may claim to be spoon- of the whole concern.
So with the husiness of the State. here has never been a more mischievous precedent set than the subsidy to the cont trade. Already it has excited other in- terests with the appetite for plunder. The agricultural interest has approached the Government with a demand for a sub- content." sidy. Only five millions and we shall be
And if the coal trade and the agricul
tural industry, why not shipbuilding - Why not engineering! Why not iron and
If subsidies are going, these stret especially iron and steel, have more neeil,
subsidy out of the taxpayers pockets, Cook is capturing trade unioniam and the Government doing nothing to redeem the The result is not difficult to foresee, situation; but instant is plunging us into potamia, Singapore and the remote places Gigadis offers us a picture of the super new and incalculable liabilities in Meso
earth. natural world as it would be if he had of the the perishing at the centre, what had, the creating and the ordering of it. help will it be to us if we caver Meso He does his imaginative job conscienti patums with barracks and aerodromes
is to be done at home What would he of them than coul or agriculture." ouily, no doubt, creditably perhaps; hut and Singapore with naval bases! What
But the whole idea is insane. Il indus. what sort of guarantee have we that the the things that a Government of men like supernatural world as it really is corre. Henry Ford, Lord Cowdray, Gordon Self.tries can only Eve by sucking ono
world would do if this vast concern was will soon be reached. sponds to what Gigadibs thinks it ought ridge and other princes of the business another's blood, the end of all industries tube There is no room here for original in their hands with full power to act?" argument; one can only restate the thesis RECONSTRUCTION'S ROCKY ROAD. In the fret place, do not let us over of that often quoted, seldom read, never
state the case and get in a panic. We refuted work, Butler's Analogy." Gigadibs bad created our visible world of fare passing through the greatest crisis in sense and of certainty, would he have the industrial history of this country, produued the world we see around us and we need cool heads, firm minds and
bigh courage. Not he; none will tell you so more loudly confident we shall worry through
than he
If
paper in starting a series of articles by
Here lie 1 Marlin Elginbrodd" well-known novelists under the heading
Have mercy on uty soul, Lord God; As I would do, gin I were Gol, "My Religion." The phrase; of course,
And Thou wert Martin Elginbrodd. is a perfectly legitimate one; and when Mr. Compton Mackenzie replies to the For Gigadibs that is but a small stretch editor's question by offering some of the of the imagination. If he had been the considerations, which led him to become Omnipotent, he tells us, there should have been no pain in the world except perhaps 2 Catholic, it explains clay such pain as was personally deserved, and enough. Mr. Mackenzie writes about my calculated to reform the character which religion" just as & Dane (say) might had deserved it; human life would have write for the English public about Bickered out painlessly at the age of country there is no mistaking his atti- tude; it has nothing proprietary in it, ninety: there would have been no mad nothing egotistic. But, I hope I am not men, no hereditary criminals, and so on. alone in feeling that most of the other Now, if Gigadibs's idea, of the natural contributions suggest a quite differect order sa it ought to be is so different from the natural order as it is, what sense interpretation of the word my,' others write of religions which are their own invention, for which they themselves are responsible their religion and nobody clse's Which seems so add,
THE BOND OF A RELIGION.
The
The truth is that if we are to recover, we must face the economic facts with
honest economic remedies. If an inthistry is not organised so that it is paying it must be reorganised so that it will pay.
We cannot spoon-feed agriculture. If farming is not paying--which I believe era must learn to make it pay or give to be entirely unfounded then the farm plane to other farmers who will adopt better methods.
And so with coal. We have the best coal seams in the world, and we ought to have as cheap coal and as profitable a coal industry as there is in the world. It is not the fault of Nature that we have
Every great staple industry is paralysed not. It is the fault of bad blood and an
effete system
in consequence, and every industry that is suffering is called upon to pay tributo THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH to the authors of its suffering.
Mr. Baldwin has got to say to the coal
the crisis. I am confident that in ten, twenty years time we shall as a nation. be in a healthier, sounder position as the result of the ordeal through which we are passing now. Our country is undergoing reconstruction, and reconstruction, whe ther of a road, a business or a State, is Nor are things quite so desperate as always a dirty, dusty and costly affair, they seem. The dead weight of unemploy ment is deplorante and unprecedented. Ten in every hundred are unemployed Yes, but do not let us forget that tinety are still employed. Trade is in the dol drums. Yes, but we are still doing as industry, as Mr. Selfridge, would say to Put your house in order. If the system large a proportion of the export trade of his hat department if it did not pay. I am not saying that all is well. It is is out of date, scrap it and get a new one, the world as we did before the War.
other there in assuming that Gigadibs's iden far from well. But all is not lost. The but, do not think the pubite are going to of the supernatural order as it ought, to margin of change that would fill our sails pay you for impoverishing every be corresponds with the supernatural with the wind of good business is not department in the State. And so to order as it is! The probability is that large-perhaps only 5 per cent, certainly agriculture when it comes hat in hand
not more than 10 per cent, of new de-for its dole... Gigadiba is as hadly cut in the one case
I repeat that I am confident that as in the other. Meanwhile the plain and would do it.
And I do not despair that the change shall come through the crinia, but we shall man does not want Gigadiba's religion;ill come. A breath of confidence blow-not get through it until we have cut off be wants Almighty God's religion.
PAPER RELIGIONS
ing through the world will bring.it.
I do not believe in miracles and I do not believe in supermen. I do not think despotism of business men would bring
However you disguise these things they salvation any more than a Workers Soviet would bring us salvation. boil down to Communism on the one hand in neither. I believe in the representative and Fascism on the other, and I believe system and in Parliament, with all its defects. I am sure we can fight it out on
on no other.
For it is, surely, one of the accidental glories of any religion, true or false, that it should be & bond which 'unites men. in the observance of it. Even a tribal cult
I have called this article "My Irreli which does not pretend that its god is the god of any neighbouring tribe would giou" because I could quite easily sit regard it, indeed, as plagiarism if neigh-down and draw up paper religions for bours were to adopt its own tenets-never self only I should not call them reli theless identifies itself eagerly with the Kious but irreligions, because they would whole life of that one tribe, Birth and not bind me, whereas the function of reli coming of age are alike marked by ceregion, by mere fare of words, is to bind Just so I could easily re-write Bradshaw, monies which bestow a religious and if I chose, in a way which would be far political states, make a man a communic
should more satisfactory to myself; you ant (so to speak) and consequently a citizen. The more recent and reflective see what I would do with the branch this line, and win, and that we can win of the London and Nowhere Else Rail- The best service that the great business religious organisations of the world 80 way! But such pleasing fancies have this man can do for all of us is to make his further, and insist that if things were as they should be not one tribe only but disadvantage, that the trains will not run own business boom. Every business that the whole of mankind would be united in according to my revised edition: they will prospers is grist to our national mill,
run according to Bradshaw-as-is. Any wind in our sails, fact for our fire. holding this or that creed, however tenu- intelligent naan could make up half a But while I do not wish to see a Govern- ous, fulfiling these or those religious dozen, quite interesting creeds before ment of Fords and Selfridges sitting at
In short, duties, however unexacting.
breakfast It is just as easy to imagine Westminster any more than I want to see what everybody naturally demands of a religion is that it should be, not his reli- creed without hell as it is to imagine a Workers' Soviet sitting at Westminster, a world without pais. But, what would there are certain principles of business gion, but the religion of all good men you 1 Lam only Martin Elginbrodd. which should he applied to a State which ideally, the religion of all men whatso
"If Mr. Walpole and Mr. Bennett really is in dificulties as much as to a business ever. It is hardly reassuring for the com- want to feat a new religion, it is no good which is in difficulties. mon mortal who looks for religious leader- for them to sit down in an armchair and I am sure, for example, that when times ship to be confronted with a pile of help think it out. Their best course is to take are had and trade is depressed Mr. Sel- ful theories hearing the label "A poor hashish or something, and then they may fridge does not choose that moment to thing but mine own.”
"My religion is a daunting phrase, get a revelation of sorts. And that re-launch out into remote gambles. because it suggests idiosyncrasy: it is velation, however ludicrous it may be, may possibly catch on as a freak religion. daunting also because it carries with it But it will catch on precisely because it
is not theirs-Evening Standard. a flavour of ownership. It suggests that you have invented the religion for your self. The very word religion means re- straint, implies a power which is greater than you and, outside your control, a power which imposes itself on you. The ward loses its whole force if your reli- gion" is simply a mirror of yourself, reflecting your own fads and foibles, your own kinks and prejudices.
HORSE SENSE.
I do not mean that a religion must necessarily be a revealed religion: natural religion is a perfectly sensible thing, and was indeed is most parts of the world the only religion Man had be fore the Christian, era But natural reli- gion depends largely upon the horse sense of the human mind; we don't need liter ary men to dietate it to a "My" reli- gion means, commonly, the religion that suits itself to my particular temperament, it is the supernatural seci from my parti cular angle of vision, however myopic, however distorted. Inevitable that. wan's religious sentiments, if they depend on. no revelation, should become thus in dividualised. But why iced it to us in the daily Press? Do they expect us to 150 down and say, "There is one God, and Gigadils is is prophet "T
Of all men Gigadiba is the last man who should he turned loose on this sort of thing. For your writer of betion is accustomed to ape: the airs, of creative Intelligenes. He is a ercator, although his puppets live only in a shadow world. In that shallow world he is sole demiurge; he can predestine his hem to live happily ever afterwards, his villain to throw him. self over a precipice, or (what is more common besadays) the other way round. He can dictate to a stenographer, the colour of his heroine's hair (what is left of it), her early struggles and inhibitions, ter improbable partiality for sheiks and cavemen he can make his characters come in for a furtune or go bankrupt at moment's notice he puts every word into their mouths, every thought into their Aberda
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