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“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“All things are flowing, even those that seem immovable. The adamant is always passing into smoke. The plants imbibe the materialswhich they want from the air and the ground. They burn, that is, exhale and decompose their own bodies into the air and earth again. The animal burns, or undergoes the like perpetual consumption. The earth burns, the mountains burn and decompose, slower, but incessantly.”

Want Body Seems Earth Nature Change Animal Air Mountain All Things Plant Passing Passings Smoke Perpetual Consumption Incessantly Adamant

Book:The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.”

Knows Life Death Dies Nature Common Eternity Passing Passings Passing Through Father Died Mortality In Hamlet Hamlet Theme Morality In Hamlet Hamlet Death

Author:William Shakespeare

“The trash and litter of nature disappears into the ground with the passing of each year, but man's litter has more permanence.”

Men Years Nature Disappear Passing Passings Trash Permanence

Book:The Pastures of Heaven

Source: The Pastures of Heaven

“For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result.”

Science Causes Nature Natural Results Conditions Effects Produce Passing Passings Passing Away

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation