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Deep down, everything boils down to the following simple question; Do we really want justice and the realization in this world of higher principles, or else do we want to serve selfish, short-sighted interests, which, when all is said and done, are also prejudicial to those very same that pursue them?
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Moral improvement require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer; For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse that already threaten, the whole civilization will risks to disappear.
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The incorporation of every individual in a collective mechanism of production, would mean the renunciation for man himself of its independence and his dignity as a rational being. The results of such a state of things would be: regression and deterioration in every fields of life. For the true progress consist in the accomplishment of higher ends, and these would be directly made impossible in a coercive social mechanism. Let us think to the fate that, in these conditions, new truths would have in store.
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The moral improvement demands an evolution leading to a higher consciousness
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The more gifted by nature is a man, the more is deplorable the abuse that he does by using them to shameful ends. A swindler of higher condition is more blameworthy than a vulgar scoundrel; an intelligent evil-doer, having benefited from a higher education, represent a more saddening phenomenon than an unfortunate illiterate fellow having committed an offence.
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Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection.
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If we recognize, following the materialist theories, that only the physical nature exist, and that man contain no higher essence, divine, which, by one side of his being, raise him above his animal nature, it would be a question neither of obligation, nor of moral responsibility; then the supreme good would consist for him, indeed, to satisfy his appetites and his natural inclinations, to look for the pleasure and flee from pain. In this case, there could be neither religion nor moral, since religion is precisely what raise man above vulgar reality, and that moral is the very negation of selfishness.
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Arbitrariness and true liberty are as distinct from each other that the empirical nature is distinct from the higher nature of man.
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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear — a disastrous circle.
Dorothy Thompson
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Born:
November 15, 1837
Died:
March 26, 1890
(aged 52)
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