 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
H. G. Wells's story, “The Country of the Blind", relates the efforts of a man with normal eyesight to persuade a blind population that he possesses a sense of which they are destitute; he fails, and in the end they decide to put out his eyes to cure him of his delusion. So it may be with ethical intuition, but if most men are ethically blind the fate of those who have ethical vision is likely to resemble that of Wells’s seer. Indeed the history of moral reformers bears out this view.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 5
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