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Chapter 15

The basis of Euchronianism is the philosophy that better things lie ahead. The Euchronian Movement was founded on the principle of directing change, not on a small scale, but on the largest scale possible. The Euchronian Movement preached the doctrine that to design a model society and predict that it would one day come about was simply not enough. The Movement demanded commitment—commitment to an ideal state which lay so far in the future that no man would live to see it, nor his children, nor his children’s children—only descendants so remote that they might number half the human race. The Movement demanded ultimate sacrifice in the name of a goal which could only be a racial goal.

William Blake’s “prophetic books” offered the first Euchronian philosophy.

Karl Marx’s social science offered the first Euchronian doctrine.

Fundamental to Euchronianism is the intellectual transcendence of pure selfishness. Euchronianism is not necessarily religious, nor is it necessarily socialist. It is, however, necessarily altruistic.