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... past . In such circumstances it is evident that the assault which science has conducted against religion in the past would have to be considered simply an attack on an empty fort . Not only has the real position not been 1 assailed ...
... past . In such circumstances it is evident that the assault which science has conducted against religion in the past would have to be considered simply an attack on an empty fort . Not only has the real position not been 1 assailed ...
الصفحة 21
... past as to think that religious beliefs are so far shaken that their future survival " is rather an object of pious hope than of reasoned judg- ment ; " or to assume , like M. Renan , that they " will die slowly out , undermined by ...
... past as to think that religious beliefs are so far shaken that their future survival " is rather an object of pious hope than of reasoned judg- ment ; " or to assume , like M. Renan , that they " will die slowly out , undermined by ...
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... past profoundly influenced the higher thought of Europe and America in nearly all its branches , and has been in its turn enriched thereby , the departments into which it has become subdivided have shown a tendency to remain reserved ...
... past profoundly influenced the higher thought of Europe and America in nearly all its branches , and has been in its turn enriched thereby , the departments into which it has become subdivided have shown a tendency to remain reserved ...
الصفحة 26
... past ; yet , strange to say , feeling it scarcely necessary to take any interest in those sciences which in the truest sense lead up to his the circumstances under which he has lived . This change in the point of view of economics is ...
... past ; yet , strange to say , feeling it scarcely necessary to take any interest in those sciences which in the truest sense lead up to his the circumstances under which he has lived . This change in the point of view of economics is ...
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... past , through the rise and decline of great civilisations where we seem to recognise many of the well - known phenomena of life , through the development of social systems which are even spoken of as organic growths , through a social ...
... past , through the rise and decline of great civilisations where we seem to recognise many of the well - known phenomena of life , through the development of social systems which are even spoken of as organic growths , through a social ...
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الصفحة 213 - ... grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation; but with this too grows the revolt of the working class, a class always increasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist production itself.
الصفحة 90 - But the thing a man does practically believe (and this is often enough without asserting it even to himself, much less to others) ; the thing a man does practically lay to heart, and know for certain, concerning his vital relations to this mysterious Universe, and his duty and destiny there, that is in all cases the primary thing for him, and creatively determines all the rest.
الصفحة 32 - I happened to read for amusement ' Malthus on Population,' and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long-continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species.
الصفحة 214 - With the seizing of the means of production by society, production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer. Anarchy in social production is replaced by systematic, definite organization.
الصفحة 103 - A religion is a form of belief providing an ultrarational sanction for that large class of conduct in the individual where his interests and the interests of the social organism are antagonistic, and by which the former are rendered subordinate to the latter in the general interests of the evolution which the race is undergoing.
الصفحة 3 - Even the best of modern civilization appears to me to exhibit a condition of mankind which neither embodies any worthy ideal nor even possesses the merit of stability. I do not hesitate to express the opinion that, if there is no hope of a large improvement of the condition of the greater part of the human family; if it is true that the increase of knowledge, the winning of a greater dominion over Nature, which is its consequence, and the wealth which follows upon that dominion, are to make no difference...
الصفحة 4 - I do not hesitate to express the opinion, that, if there is no hope of a large improvement of the condition of the greater part of the human family ; if it is true that the increase of knowledge, the winning of a greater dominion over Nature which is its consequence, and the wealth which follows upon that dominion, are to make no difference in the extent and the intensity of Want, with its concomitant physical and moral degradation, among the masses of the people, I should hail the advent of some...
الصفحة 75 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
الصفحة 313 - The day will come, and perhaps is not far distant, when the European observer will look round to see the globe girdled with a continuous zone of the black and yellow races...
الصفحة 173 - With louder and louder vivats, — for indeed it is ' after dinner ' too, — they abolish Tithes, Seignorial Dues, Gabelle, excessive Preservation of Game ; nay Privilege, Immunity, Feudalism root and branch ; then appoint a Te Deum for it ; and so, finally, disperse about three in the morning, striking the stars with their sublime heads. Such night, unforeseen but for ever memorable, was this of the Fourth of August 1789.