Dogma and Prejudice
[-OR me, E. M, Forster is a great man who has contrived, in two novels at least, to crystallise the timeless values of humanism. For this reason I would be interested in anything he had to say regardless of subject matter. That Forster should have chosen Samuel Butler for a BBC talk heard over 3YC doubled the interest, Although it is easy to see the source of a sympathy between G. B. Shaw and Butler, it is not so easy to see the basis of attraction between the careful, gentle, wise and tulerant Forster and the witty, prejudiced and prophetic Butler, except perhaps that they complement one another. In this talk Forster mentioned Butler’s hatred of dogma but admitted his prejudices. But Forster’s more abstract statements never seem to (continued on next page)
(continued {rom previous page) me as wise as his novels, and at this | point particularly I noted that he could | forgive the prejudice but not the dogma. | Is there any more difference between — dogma and prejudice than between publicly and privately held beliefs? Both > may be wrong, but providing our, charity is equal to the passion of our | beliefs, why should those held by a num- | ber of people be worse than the indi- | vidual convictions?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 757, 22 January 1954, Page 8
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212Dogma and Prejudice New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 757, 22 January 1954, Page 8
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