"It will not suffice to point out the inventions and processes of our century unless it can be shown that they are something other than a splendid efflorescence of decay" (12)
"The whole tendency of modern thought, one might say its whole moral impulse, is to keep the individual busy with endless induction." (12)
"The unexpressed assumption of empiricism is that experience will tell us what we are experiencing." (13)
"A great material establishment, by its very temptation to luxuriousness, unfits the owner for the labor necessary to maintain it, as has been observed countless times in the histories and of nations." (15)
"Civilization has been an intermittent phenomenon; to this truth we have allowed ourselves to be blinded by the insolence of material success." (17)
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