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"To say that
government ought to do that which is "expedient," or
to do that which will tend to produce the
"greatest happiness," or to do that which
will subserve the "general good," is to say nothing; for there is infinite
disagreement regarding the natures of these desiderata.
A definition of which the terms
are indefinite is an absurdity.
Whilst
the practical interpretation of
"expediency" remains a matter of opinion, to say that a government should
do that which is "expedient," is to say that it should do, what we think it
should do!
The expediency-philosophy ignores
a world full of facts.
It
considers the philosophy of humanity easy, the constitution of the social
organism simple, the cause of people's conduct obvious; general examination can
provide "collective wisdom," the insight requisite for law-creation.
The expediency philosophy
thinks that
man's intellect is competent to:
observe accurately the facts exhibited by
associated human nature;
to form just estimates of general
and individual character;
to understand the effects of
religions, traditions,
superstitions,
prejudices, of the mental tendencies of
the age and of the probabilities
of future events;
to grasping
at once the multiplied phenomena of this ever-agitated, ever-changing sea of
life, to derive from them knowledge of
their governing principles which shall enable him to say whether such and
such measures will conduce to "the greatest
happiness of the greatest number."
Here, then, we have a rationale
of the expediency-ideology of government.
It is the latest and most
refined form assumed by this disposition to exalt the state at the expense of
the individual. Between that old eastern regime under which the
citizen was the private property of his
ruler, having no rights at all, and that final
state under which his rights will be entire and inviolable, there comes this
intermediate state in which he is allowed to possess rights, but only by
sufferance of parliament.
Thus the expediency - philosophy falls
naturally into its place as a phenomena attending our progress from
past slavery to future
freedom.
Like each of its predecessors, it is natural to a certain
phase of human development.
And it is fated to lose its hold as fast as
our adaptation to the complex social state increases.
As
far as the state is concerned again comes the inquiry - how does
expediency-philosophy propose to determine between what should be attempted and
what should not?
To escape the charge of political empiricism, the
polity must show us some scientific test by which we can in each case determine
whether or not state-superintendence is
desirable.
Between the one extreme of entire non-interference, and
the other extreme in which every citizen is to be
transformed into a grown-up
baby, "with bib and pap-spoon," there lie
innumerable stopping places; and he who would have the state do more than
protect is required to say where he means to draw the line, and to give us
substantial reasons why it
must be just there and nowhere else.
The proper constitution of
governments, their duties, and the limits to their action must be arrived at
out of an endless labyrinth of confused
debate concerning the policy of these or those public measures, it openly
short and easily-discerned ways; and the conclusions it leads to are enforced,
both generally, by an abundant experience of the fallacy of expedient
decision, and specially, by
numerous arguments bearing on each
successive question.
If the true end of this conflict of
opinion is to keep social arrangements
in harmony with the average
character of the people; and if the
honest opinion held by each man of any given state of things is not an
intellectual accident, but indicates a preponderating fitness or unfitness
of that state of things to his moral
condition; then it follows that only by a universal manifestation of honest
opinions can harmony between social
arrangements and the average popular character be preserved." - Herbert
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