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Max Nordau

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Description:Excerpt from The Conventional Lies of Our CivilizationThis book claims to be a faithful presentation of the views of the majority of educated, cultivated people of the present day. There is no doubt but what millions living in the midst of our civilization have learned by their own re ﬂection and experience to regard and criticise the existing conditions of State and society as they are criticised in the following pages, and will coincide in the Opinion expressed in them, that the present social, political and economic institutions are utterly at variance with the views and con ceptions of the universe based upon natural science, and therefore untenable and doomed to destruction. Notwith standing this fact, the author knows that many people will hold up their hands in holy horror when they read it, and not the least ostentatiously those who find their own most secret sentiments expressed in it. This is the very reason why the author believed that it was necessary, that it was imperative upon him, to write this book. The greatest evil of our times is the prevailing cowardice. We do not dare to assert our opinions, to bring our outward lives into har mony with our inward convictions; we believe it to be worldly policy to cling outwardly to relics of former ages when at heart we are completely severed from them. We do not wish to shock anyone, nor ofiend anyone's prejudices, and we call this respecting the convictions of others those others who in return do not respect our convictions, who ridicule them, who persecute them, and who would like best to exterminate them and us at the same time. This lack of sincerity and manly courage prolongs the period of falseness, and postpones indefinitely the triumph of truth. The author at least wished to fulfill his duty to himself, to truth, and to his comrades in sentiment. He has expressed his convictions openly and without the slightest hesitation. If all those who are dissembling - acting contrary to their convictions, diplomatizing and feigning-were to do the same as the author, they would find perhaps to their amaze ment that they formed the majority in many places, and that it would soon be to their advantage to lead sincere and con sistent lives, instead of their present careers of hypocrisy and double dealing.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization. To get started finding The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The Conventional Lies of Our CivilizationThis book claims to be a faithful presentation of the views of the majority of educated, cultivated people of the present day. There is no doubt but what millions living in the midst of our civilization have learned by their own re ﬂection and experience to regard and criticise the existing conditions of State and society as they are criticised in the following pages, and will coincide in the Opinion expressed in them, that the present social, political and economic institutions are utterly at variance with the views and con ceptions of the universe based upon natural science, and therefore untenable and doomed to destruction. Notwith standing this fact, the author knows that many people will hold up their hands in holy horror when they read it, and not the least ostentatiously those who find their own most secret sentiments expressed in it. This is the very reason why the author believed that it was necessary, that it was imperative upon him, to write this book. The greatest evil of our times is the prevailing cowardice. We do not dare to assert our opinions, to bring our outward lives into har mony with our inward convictions; we believe it to be worldly policy to cling outwardly to relics of former ages when at heart we are completely severed from them. We do not wish to shock anyone, nor ofiend anyone's prejudices, and we call this respecting the convictions of others those others who in return do not respect our convictions, who ridicule them, who persecute them, and who would like best to exterminate them and us at the same time. This lack of sincerity and manly courage prolongs the period of falseness, and postpones indefinitely the triumph of truth. The author at least wished to fulfill his duty to himself, to truth, and to his comrades in sentiment. He has expressed his convictions openly and without the slightest hesitation. If all those who are dissembling - acting contrary to their convictions, diplomatizing and feigning-were to do the same as the author, they would find perhaps to their amaze ment that they formed the majority in many places, and that it would soon be to their advantage to lead sincere and con sistent lives, instead of their present careers of hypocrisy and double dealing.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization. To get started finding The Conventional Lies of Our Civilization, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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