Saturday, August 23, 2008
AUGUST 25 - THE JOAD DIARIES (1948)
This brings me to the second turning-point (the first being 'pacifism').
The war opened my eyes to a fact which the whole of my previous training and connections had conspired to make me ignore, the fact, namely, that evil is not accidental, a mere by-product of circumstance, but is endemic and, I should add, ineradicable, in the heart of man - the doctrine, in fact, of original sin.
The war opened my eyes to a fact which the whole of my previous training and connections had conspired to make me ignore, the fact, namely, that evil is not accidental, a mere by-product of circumstance, but is endemic and, I should add, ineradicable, in the heart of man - the doctrine, in fact, of original sin.
