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The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

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And again I answer that it is only in the degree that the slave is emancipated and the personality differentiated that we can speak of progress.

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These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

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The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

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The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

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The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

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We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge,just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

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But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

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It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

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There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

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I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

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A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

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The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

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You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

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In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

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That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

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It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

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The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

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