“Democracy may have arisen in the West as the way of striving for the universal aspiration to dignity and freedom, but it isn't alien to the underlying concepts that infuse religion and moral philosophy everywhere.”
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
