“And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by disputes the public peace disturb; For points obscure are of small use to learn, But common quiet is mankind's concern.” IfsWayStillsReasonUseRunningChurchCommonMankindQuietConcernHearingDoctrineObscureDisputesAnother WayCurb Book:Dryden: Selected Poems Source: Dryden: Selected Poems
“And last of all we have the secondary forms of crystals bursting in upon us, and sparkling in the rigidity of mathematical necessity and telling us, neither of harmony of design, usefulness or moral significance, nothing but spherical trigonometry and Napier's analogies. It is because we have blindly excluded the lessons of these angular bodies from the domain of human knowledge that we are still in doubt about the great doctrine that the only laws of matter are those which our minds must fabricate, and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.” MindHumansStillsMatterBodyLastsFormLawMoralDoubtDesignLessonsHarmonyDoctrineMathematicalSignificanceDomainCrystalsUsefulnessAnalogiesExcludedBurstingSparklingRigidityHuman KnowledgeFabricateTrigonometry Book:The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862 Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862
“I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is erroneous. The nation-state reaches back far into the origins of Europe itself and perhaps beyond. If Europe was not always a Europe of nations, it was always a Europe in which nations existed, and were taken for granted, as a basic form of the State.” IfsKnowsStillsStatesFormNationsTakenCenturyTaughtEuropeDoctrineGranted19th CenturyTaken For Granted Author:Enoch Powell
“In point of fact there are a certain number of values and of forces which are of decisive importance in our world civilization: the primacy of production, the continual growth of the power of the State and the formation of the National State, the autonomous development of technics, etc. These, among others - far more than the ownership of the means of production or any totalitarian doctrine - are the constitutive elements of the modern world. So long as these elements continue to be taken for granted, the world is standing still.” WorldMeanLongStillsStatesFactsCertainValuesForceGrowthNumbersTakenModernDevelopmentCivilizationElementsStandingImportanceProductionsDoctrineGrantedEtcOur WorldOwnershipModern WorldFormationTaken For GrantedAutonomousStanding StillPrimacyContinual Growth Author:Jacques Ellul
“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.” MindHumansStillsPeaceWeaknessDoctrinePropagandaHuman MindDominating Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman