Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 75-76
Context: Other causes contributed to Tolstoy's failure, but the most important of all the causes was this unmitigated individualism, which not only rendered impossible cooperation with other men, but even made the evolution of human society an obstacle which had to be overcome.... western progress is in nearly every manner socializing life; and in general the social and economic tendencies in the West seemed to Tolstoy to be fighting against his most cherished ideals.... He was living in a transitional age and watching Russia change from a peasant and handicraft society into an industrial regime based upon steam power and electricity About him multitudes of peasants were leaving the land to crowd into the factories.
“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”
Robert Grosseteste and the Origins of Experimental Science 1100-1700 (1953)
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter III, Some Implications Of The First Image, p. 42
Source: Why We Fail as Christians (1919), p. 69
Source: Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Think You Know (2010), p. 278
“speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.”
Book I, 1.121-[5]
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book I
Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils, chapter 4, p.90 (1913).
Boston Massacre Oration (1774)
Context: I mean not to boast; I would not excite envy, but manly emulation. We have all one common cause; let it, therefore, be our only contest, who shall most contribute to the security of the liberties of America. And may the same kind Providence which has watched over this country from her infant state still enable us to defeat our enemies!
