SO NATURE S GOOD: A CONVERSATION 



distilled into opiates and distributed among the 

 masses to make them less rebellious. That, if you 

 would know, Eaton, is the real historic origin of 

 the ideal world beyond. When you realize that, 

 you will perceive that the pragmatists are only 

 half-way over. You will see that practical ques 

 tions are practical, and are not to be solved merely 

 by having a theory about theory different from 

 the traditional one which is all your pragmatism 

 comes to. 



Moore. If you mean that your own crass Phi 

 listinism is all that pragmatism comes to, I fancy 

 you are about right. Forget that the only end of 

 action is to bring about an approximation to the 

 complete inclusive consciousness ; make, as the 

 pragmatists do, consciousness a means to action, 

 and one form of external activity is just as good as 

 another. Art, religion, all the generous reaches 

 of science which do not show up immediately in 

 the factory these things become meaningless, and 

 all that remains is that hard and dry satisfaction 

 of economic wants which is Grimes s ideal. 



Grimes. An ideal which exists, by the way, only 

 in your imagination. I know of no more convinc 

 ing proof of the futile irrelevancy of idealism than 

 the damning way in which it narrows the content 

 of actual daily life in the minds of those who up 

 hold idealism. I sometimes think I am the only 

 true idealist. If the conditions of an equitable and 



