1、 plan.The trickle became a stream;the stream has now become a torrent.Moreover, as soon as new knowledge is acquired, it is now turned to practical account.What is called “modern civilization” is not the result of a balanced development of all mans nature,but of accumulated knowledge applied to prac
2、tical life.The problem now facing humanity is:What is going to be done with all this knowledge?As is so often pointed out, knowledge is a two-edged weaponwhich can be used equally for good or evil.It is now being used indifferently for both.Could any spectacle, for instance, be more grimly weirdthan
3、 that of gunners using science to shatter mens bodies while, close at hand,surgeons use it to restore them?We have to ask ourselves very seriously what will happen if this twofold use of knowledge,with its ever-increasing power, continues.Passage 8. Address by EngelsOn the 14th of March, at a quarte
4、r to three in the afternoon,the greatest living thinker ceased to think.He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes,and when we came back we found him in his armchair,peacefully gone to sleepbut forever.An immeasurable loss has been sustained both by the militant proletariat of Europe and Americ
5、a,and by historical science, in the death of this man.The gap that has been left by the departure of this mighty spiritwill soon enough make itself felt.Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature,so Marx discovered the law of development of human history:the simple fact, hith
6、erto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology,that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing,before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.;that therefore the production of the immediate material means of subsistenceand consequently the degree of economic development
7、 attained by a given peopleor during a given epoch form the foundation upon which the state institutions,the legal conceptions, art, and even the ideas on religion,of the people concerned have been evolved, and in the light of which they must, therefore,be explained, instead of vice versa, as had hi
8、therto been the case.But that is not all.Marx also discovered the special law of motion governing the present-day capitalist mode of productionand the bourgeois society that this mode of production has created.The discovery of surplus value suddenly threw light on the problem,in trying to solve whic
9、h all previous investigations,of both bourgeois economists and socialist critics, had been groping in the dark.Two such discoveries would be enough for one lifetime.Happy the man to whom it is granted to make even one such discovery.But in every single field which Marx investigatedand he investigate
10、d very many fields,none of them superficiallyin every field, even in that of mathematics,he made independent discoveries.Passage 9. Rel劰笀销挀栀琀洀氀攀鞸餀5Sqwap前台访问/p-3151932.html220.181.108.1530勈绒圀焀挀栀琀洀氀最鞸餀/Mg前台访问/p-3272015.html114.239.57.310笀销挀栀琀洀氀椀鞸餀5Smwap前台访问/p-1321360.html116.179.32.350%椀瀀栀琀洀氀欀鞸餀楒/前台访问/tag/fangdichanyingxiaocehuakaitibaogao.html123.56.132.2300椀搀栀琀洀氀洀鞸烩餀/a前台访问/BookRead.aspx?id=32831401.164.243.2390勈銰甀鄀挀栀琀洀氀漀鞸瀀餀5Smwap前台访问/d-3288318.html116.179.32.700最茀眀愀瀀漀漀欀刀攀愀搀愀猀瀀砀椀搀焀鞸瀀餀/Ke前台访问/p-196349.html157.55.39.1980哰攀瀀栀琀洀氀猀鞸烩餀/Qk前台访问/sitemap-584.html17.58.101.1240%画欀瀀栀琀洀氀甀鞸鰀餀馣
