Religion
Science is…
Science is: “patience in investigation and clarity in calculation; singleness of purpose; the power to suspend judgement, to remain, if need be, for a lifetime in doubt…” ~Max Eastman
Science
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Socialism
Dialectic Thinking?
“Not only is there no such thing as dialectic thinking, but there is no such superintellectual knowledge of the exact nature of the universe as that to which an alleged dialectic thinking pretends to give access.” ~Max Eastman
Marxism
Dialectic Philosophy
“Marx’s dialectic philosophy, with all its wish to be scientific, and to even out-science the scientists, is a survival of … wish-fulfillment thoughts about the world.” ~Max Eastman
Marxism
Superscientific
Marxism “is superscientific, metaphysical–religious in the truest sense of the term. It is a scheme for reading the ideal purpose of the communists…” ~Max Eastman
Marxism
The World Robot
“Far from abandoning ‘all philosophy’ for science, Marx did not even abandon Hegel’s philosophy. He merely replaced Hegel’s World Spirit with a World Robot…” ~Max Eastman
Socialism
Romantic Philosophy
“There is no intellectual question of more importance to the future of American culture than the question whether we are going to conduct our social efforts in the name of science, or are going to swallow down this romantic philosophy” ~Max Eastman
Dialectic
The Marxist Mind
“In the mind of the Marxist, dialectic is the ‘leader of all knowledge’ and ‘holds the primacy and rule of all philosophy,’ and of science ,too…” ~Max Eastman
Religion
Oversoulful People
“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…” ~Max Eastman