Unchallenged Conscience

Much of our confusion in our thinking springs from the desire to find an early explanation of the universe which does not demand too much discipline of life and which leaves the conscience unchallenged. This desire, and its products in damaging and vitiated thought, can be traced back to Voltaire—back indeed to the Sophists, for Aristophanes wrote his entertaining comedy The Clouds to satirise this very phenomenon.

Philosophy has its social reflection. Surely, as Wells was constrained to admit, man is "at the end of his tether," Hither has his thinking led him.

Perhaps a return to the point where he abandoned God as an element in his thinking, and on exploration of the road which takes God and His Word into solid account, might remove the confusion from life and thought. Thoreau remarked long ago that men generally are living "lives of quiet desperation". The word is truer every day. The alcholism of the day, its escapist literature, its hectic tone, are symptoms of minds adrift, betrayed by the leaders of thought.