He waits until the very end of the story where he explains that people act excellently because, “…. in a thousand variations” they act “for the eye of God.” That’s fictious reasoning.. It’s Murray’s opinion that’s not at all in consonance or congruent with the massive database Murray created and studied because he never connects anything with God’s eye or anything else about God, religion, the mystical universe or anything except people. Murray does a brilliant job showing human accomplishment and achievement in the beautiful, elegant and intelligent accomplishments of people. If there is any connection between those accomplishments and the mystical world of God and religion it is missing from this wonderful book. This is a human story completely about people. Murray is OK with that but at the very end he jumps into the supernatural. He had no need of that. He could have explained the correct basis for human accomplishment in its rightful place. People achieve because they are people. Their motivations come from the attributes they have as people. Brains. Thought. Work. Themselves. Their motivations can be triggered or put in place by others. They may believe they were put here by God or not. They can believe many, many things about why they acted but at the end of the day, at the end of the story, they need to grasp that they did it with their own attributes; their own abilities.
Humans are the story of human achievement.
That’s why Murray named his book “Human Accomplishment”. He had no choice because that’s how accomplishment is accomplished. Good for Murray for having the fortitude and dedication to research this wonderful testament to people.
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