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The History Of Mankind Is A Perennial Tragedy; For The Highest Ideals Which The Individual May Project Are Ideals Which He Can Never Realize In Social And Collective Terms.

Perhapsthemost Sublimeinsights Ofthejewishprophets And The Christian Gospel Is The Knowledge That Since Perfection Is Love, The Apprehension Of Perfection Is At Once The Means Of Seeing One's Imperfections And The Consoling Assurance Of Grace Which Makes This Realization Bearable. This Ultimate Paradox Of High Religion Is Not An Invention Of Theologians Or Priests. It Is Constantly Validated By The Most Searching Experiences Of Life.

Whenever A Church Does Anything For Its Own Group, It Has That Right.

Even As Rigorous A Determinist As Karl Marx, Who At Times Described The Social Behaviour Of The Bourgeoisie In Terms Which Suggested A Problem In Social Physics, Could Subject It At Other Times To A Withering Scorn Which Only The Presupposition Of Moral Responsibility Could Justify.

Marxism Was The Social Creed And The Social Cry Of Those Classes Who Knew By Their Miseries That The Creed Of The Liberal Optimists Was S Snare And A Delusion... Liberalism And Marxism Share A Common Illusion Of The "children Of Light." Neither Understands Property As A Form Of Power Which Can Be Used In Either Its Individual Or Its Social Form As An Instrument Of Particular Interest Against The General Interest.