“Animistic thinking consists essentially in trying by some sort of hocus-pocus to transfer your own wishes into the external world, and so get them realized. It is emotional and ceremonial and soon becomes institutionalized…”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science?, Part IV, The Marxian System, The Belief in Dialectic Materialism
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“These oversoulful people have not wanted to deny science or deprive themselves of its benefits, but neither have they wanted to commit themselves to its methods of acquiring knowledge and above all to the limitations of knowledge which those methods imply. They have used the faculty of ideation not only in order to change real things in an ideal direction, but also in order to make themselves comfortable among things-as-they-are by thinking up ideal ways of conceiving them.”
~Max Eastman
Marxism, Is it Science? Part III The Religious Heritage, Chapter 2 Hegel’s Contribution
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