The evangelicals of the Church of England were thoroughly loyal to their church and approved of its episcopal government. But they were willing to work with Nonconformist ministers and churches because their chief interest was not the church and its rites. They considered the preaching of the gospel more important than the performance of sacraments or the styles of ritual. Such a position was called low church.
Coercion of opinion by the state in the interest of uniformity, Jefferson thought, had served only “to make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.”
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The event that marked the flowering of the universities was the grouping of students and masters into guilds. “As craftsmen had done before them,” explains Fremantle, scholars banded together for mutual interest and protection, and called themselves a universitas , the medieval name for any corporate group.
He was a good man, but he could not understand love because his only interest was science.
And not a word to me about your love for others. What you call love oozes with self-interest, avarice, and greed.Your so-called love is a complicated bundle of interests.
(Başkalarına duyduğunu söylediğin sevgi hakkında da bana tek kelime etme. Sevgi dediğin şey bencillik, açgözlülük ve hırsla dolu. Sözde sevgin, karmaşık bir çıkarlar yumağından ibaret.)
Fear of national defeat in war—hot war, cold war, or trade war—is more likely to compel elites to undertake reforms than fear of uprisings from below. In the twentieth century, the need to promote business-labor collaboration and cross-class harmony and to reduce racial strife in the world wars and the Cold War overcame the natural resistance of Western elites to sharing power, if only briefly, with organized labor.
If today’s technocratic neoliberalism is succeeded in the future by a new democratic pluralism, it is likely to be in the context of renewed great-power competition. In order to compete effectively with rival powers, patriotic factions within the overclass who put long-term national solidarity and national productivity above the short-term self-interest of their class may lead to the replacement of globalist neoliberalism with a new national developmentalism, combined with cross-class negotiations in the interest of social peace on the home front.
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