ABSTRACT
Morley had little but scorn for the "slovenly willingness to hold two contradictory opinions at one and the same time," for a shrinking deference to the status quo. He detested the "dual doctrine" according to which the more enlightened classes should openly encourage for others opinions which they do not hold themselves, of thinking one thing true and the contrary morally beneficial for the majority. "They do not believe in hell, for instance, but they think hell a useful fiction for the lower classes. . . . In other words, they think error useful, and that it may be the best thing for society that masses of men should cheat themselves in their most fervent aspirations and thendeepest assurances." They would "fain divide the community into two great castes; the one thoughtful and instructed and using their minds freely, but guarding their conclusions in strict reserve; the other of the illiterate or unreflecting, who should have certain opinions and practices taught them, not because they are true or really what their votaries are made to believe them to be, but because the intellectual superiors of the community think the in-
1 "Compromise." Morley was concerned with attitudes towards religion and politics; he did not discuss attitudes towards the law,
culcatbn of such a belief useful in all cases save their own."
