
Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London on 24th May 1870. See Education in India for major portion of the speech.
Preface of M. Quetelet
A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)
Context: But is the anatomy of man not a more painful science still?—that science which leads us to dip our hands into the blood of our fellow-beings to pry with impassible curiosity into parts and organs which once palpitated with life? And yet who dreams this day of raising his voice against the study? Who does not applaud, on the contrary, the numerous advantages which it has conferred on humanity? The time is come for studying the moral anatomy of also, and for uncovering its most afflicting aspects, with the view of providing remedies.
Speech delivered at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, London on 24th May 1870. See Education in India for major portion of the speech.
Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Chapter Five, "A Brief Treatise on the Moral Grounds of Moral Relations", p. 89
“Patience, then, is the best remedy against affliction.”
Animus aequus optimus est aerumnae condimentum.
Rudens, Act II, sc. v, line 71.
Variant translation: Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. (translation by Henry Thomas Riley)
Rudens (The Rope)
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 224
“The moral aspect of oil nationalization is more important than its economic aspect.”
"The Convenient Reverse of Logic in Our Time," commencement address, American University (1984); reprinted in A View from the Stands (1986)
[2019, Esoterism as Principle and as Way, World Wisdom, 12, 978-1-93659765-9]
Miscellaneous, Theology
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 382.