Opus IV, Telegram X.

TELEGRAM X

                       Johannes Aalstius, tells us Jonathan Israel,

                       ʻHeld in his general introduction to Christian

                       Ethics, published at Dordrecht in 1705, that

                       The new radicalism, and especially Spinozism,

5                     Overturns the entire structure of divinely ordained

                       Morality. Were such influences to gain wide

                       Acceptance, he predicted, mankind would in

                       The future concern itself only with individual

                       Happiness in this life. To many it appeared a

10                   Frightful prospect.ʼ We are the heirs of the

                       Radical Enlightenment, and we should never

                       Forget who the enemies of the Open Society are.

                       For they are returning under new disguises and

                       Lies, bringing the authority of a God as their Truth

15                   To suffering, despotism, and happiness in another

                       World, not in this life where we live and flourish.