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…Material goods have gained an increasing and finally inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.

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... Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.
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In the midst of a culture that is rationally organized for a vocational workaday life, there is hardly any room for the cultivation of acosmic brotherliness, unless it is among strata who are economically carefree. Under the technical and social conditions of rational culture, an imitation of the life of Buddha, Jesus, or Francis seems condemned to failure for purely external reasons.
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