Ten Blind Leaders of the Blind, Volume 20

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Pagina 113 - attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment, of thought that dwelt in the great men sent into the world: the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, was the history of these.
Pagina 135 - My standpoint, from which the evolution of the economic formation of society is viewed as a process of natural history, can less than any other make the individual responsible for relations whose creature he socially remains, however much he may subjectively raise himself above them.
Pagina 127 - The proposition which, in my opinion, is destined to do for history what Darwin's theory has done for biology, we both of us, had been gradually approaching for some years before 1845. How far I had independently progressed towards it is best shown by my 'Condition of the
Pagina 118 - clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is, of course, the best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, not the earth.
Pagina 81 - differed nothing in the horror of the scene from those carried about on pikes in Paris; yet this was done by the English government. It may, perhaps, be said, that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead, but it signifies much to the living; it either
Pagina 160 - back upon his own history, that he was a theologian in his childhood, a metaphysician in his youth and a natural philosopher in his manhood. All men who are up to their age can verify this for themselves.
Pagina 15 - which led John. Stuart Mill to say that if he had to choose "between communism with all its chances and the present state of society with all its sufferings and
Pagina 37 - labor — the active power of, nature; the principle of growth, of reproduction, which everywhere characterizes all the forms of that mysterious thing or condition which we call life. And it seems to me that it is this which is the cause of interest, or the increase of capital over and above that due to labor.
Pagina 114 - is the beginning of the temporal. And now, sure enough, the cry is everywhere for Liberty and Equality, Independence and so forth; instead of kings, ballot-boxes, and electoral suffrages; it seems made out that any hero-sovereign, or loyal obedience of men to a man, in things temporal or
Pagina 119 - Now it is want of honesty and decency to assert such notions publicly, and the example is pernicious. It is the part of a good mind to accept the truth as revealed by God and to acquiesce in it.

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