God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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G.B. Shaw:
We learn from history that we
learn nothing from history.
We must ask ourselves if this grand show of
humanity was staged only in order to present a
series of horrors and then come to an end for ever.
Our natures obviously rebel against this idea. A
deeply rooted sense of justice and fair play in man
demands that the fate of our world be different.
There must come a time when truth and falsehood
are known for what they are, when the oppressors
must be called to account and the oppressed must
be given due recompense for their sufferings. This
desire for justice is so strongly ingrained in human
nature that it is an inalienable part of the history of
man. This contradiction between man’s nature and
the course of events shows that there is a vacuum
which demands to be filled. The difference between
what should happen and what actually does
happen clearly indicates that there is some other
stage of life which has yet to emerge. This gap cries
out for the time when this world will be brought to
completion. I wonder how people agreeing with
Hardy’s philosophy come to regard this world as a
place of cruelty and oppression and yet fail to
