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Dr. Graham Howe preaches acceptance of the 'Law which is Reality'. We say 'preaches' advisedly because, although the main thesis of the book is an attack on morality, it reads like a sermon, and is probably intended as such. 'I hope, ' the author writes, 'that nothing I have said will lead you to regard me as anything but a disciplinarian. I am a stern sergeant-major as far as life is concerned.' The language used in many places is the old language of virtue and vice. 'Humility is the last of the virtues' we are told, but 'perhaps eventually we may learn it'.
Nevertheless, although the language savours of the old bottles, the vintage appears, at any rate, to be a new one. The preaching is all directed towards discarding Morality in favour of 'acceptance of Reality', reality being defined as 'that which is now, which is not, on the whole, what I want'. Some of reality says 'Yes' to my demands, some of it says 'No'. To accept reality is the same as to love it, because 'the essential quality of love is that it is prepared to accept what it does not like, i.e. to accept reality as a whole'. 'Acceptance is the attitude of interest and wonder towards it all, that … is content to feel "Well, be it so".'