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Source: The Natural System of Political Economy (1837), p. 30

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/435344902591770624 (17 February 2014)
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“The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.”
Source: Les Misérables

or collapse, or failed
Source: Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937), p. 41.

“All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.”

“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
Letter to William Smith, Member of the Irish Parliament (29 January 1795), quoted in R. B. McDowell (ed.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VIII: September 1794–April 1796 (Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 128
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“Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.”
This is derived from the third of Arthur C. Clarke's three laws : "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." There are other variants which had inverted this including one known as Gehm's corollary http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/cyc/l/law.htm, published several years earlier : "Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced." The earliest variant seems to be "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." It has been called "Niven's Law" and attributed to Larry Niven by some, and to Terry Pratchett by others, but without any citation of an original source in either case — the earliest occurrence yet located is an anonymous one in Keystone Folklore (1984) by the Pennsylvania Folklore Society.
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