African Spir - Progress Quotes

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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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Besides the progress of industry and technique, we see a growing discontent among the masses; we see, besides the expansion of instruction, distrust and hatred expanding among nations, that vie with one another, by the increase of their armies and the improvement of their engines of murder.

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What is missing to our civilization, is the soul, the spiritual unity, the basis. That is why everything in it is pretense and contrivance; why also, in spite of the progress and marvelous improvement they have accomplished in the external realm men have, in general, become themselves neither better, nor happier. They have neglected too much the essential; their own perfecting.

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It is erroneous to consider the multiplication of needs as a sign of progress, to think that it is necessary to arouse in the people still unpolished, new needs to bring them to a more civilized life. Similarly it is erroneous to expect to measure the degree of culture of a man to the degree of refinement he make in his methods of pleasure.

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Experience shows that what great role practice and experience play in education; practice , the prolonged exercise lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed, it may also heighten unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.

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The duty of the State is double; it must strive to perfect its member, by promoting their intellectual and moral progress, and try to keep the right and the justice in their mutual relationships.

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It is from the education of the new generations that we will especially be able to expect a real moral progress. It is important first of all to develop in it self-control, love of truth and solidarity spirit.

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