As for the system of the Commune, which makes it impossible for a man to rise or fall, it is merely the old caste system revived; if it could be put into force, all industry would be disheartened, emulation would cease, and mankind would go to sleep.
William Winwood Reade
It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.
war art
Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.
history
As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.
necessity man
sleep force man system
If indeed there were a judgment-day, it would be for man to appear at the bar not as a criminal but as accuser.
man
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
philosophy success system religion
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
mind
Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.
doubt
It is a sure criterion of the civilisation of ancient Egypt that the soldiers did not carry arms except on duty, and that the private citizens did not carry them at all.
duty
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
food
You must log in to post a comment.
There are no comments yet.