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If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

-E. M. Forster

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If Human Nature Does Alter It Will

E. M. Forster

If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

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Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. science fiction? it is already happening to some extent in our own society... instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs. in effect, antidepressants are a means of modifying an individual's internal state in such a way as to enable him to tolerate social conditions that he would otherwise find intolerable.

Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. they are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. they differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.

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