| Leo Tolstoy - 1903 - 386 pages
...failed to increase the welfare of human beings, but has, on the contrary, made their condition worse." If the arrangement of society is bad (as ours is),...oppress it, every victory over Nature will inevitably only serve to increase that power and that oppression. That is what is actually happening. With a science... | |
| 1953 - 1224 pages
...scientists. Nearly half a century back Tolstoy wrote "if the arrangement of the society is bad today and a small number of people have power over the majority...that oppression. This is what is actually happening." These words are as much appropriate, if not more, in this age of startling achievements of science,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1979 - 1634 pages
...Aldous Huxley wrote in his book Science, Liberty, and Peace, "If the arrangement of society is bad, and a small number of people have power over the majority...victory over nature will inevitably serve only to incrca?? that power and that oppression." Hnxlov cited Manama Gandhi's practical polHVs ns a way to... | |
| Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 pages
...It give us no answer to our question, what shall we do and how shall we live? What it Art? 1898 57 If the arrangement of society is bad (as ours is),...that oppression. This is what is actually happening. In Aldous Huxley Science, Liberty and Peace 1947 58 I know that most men, including those at ease with... | |
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