“To the more judicial and scientific temper of our day their invective would seem overdrawn and their sympathy would seem partisanship. In Jeremiah and in the prophetic psalms the poor as a class are made identical with the meek and godly, and "rich" and "wicked" are almost synonymous terms.”

Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Ch.1 The Historical Roots of Christianity the Hebrew Prophets, p. 7
Context: Christian ritual grew up not as the appropriate and aesthetic expression of spiritual emotions, but as the indispensable means of pleasing and appeasing God, and of securing his favors, temporal and eternal, for those who put their heart into these processes. This Christian ceremonial system does not differ essentially from that against which the prophets protested; with a few verbal changes their invectives would still apply.

In discussing the Ivy Mike thermonuclear tests in an appearance on See It Now, November 2, 1952

Chpt.2, p. 16
Principles of Geology (1832), Vol. 1

A Single Eye, All Light, No Darkness; or Light and Darkness One (1650)

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The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

Source: The Bell Jar

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Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (1809), Line 326.