Science and the Workingman: An Argument in His Own Defense Before the Criminal Court of Berlin on the Charge of Havingpublicly Incited the Unpropertied Classes to Hatred and Contempt of the Propertied Classes. A Translation of "Die Wissenschft und Die Arbeiter." By Thorstein Veblen |
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accused alleged appeal August Böckh bearing bourgeoisie capital cents charge classes of society classes to hatred Commune of 1871 Constitution court criminal code defense effect Eleanor Marx Aveling elegant volume endeavors ethical principle Eugene Eugene Sue exposition FERDINAND LASSALLE force French GABRIEL DEVILLE German ground hand hatred and contempt imminent social incitement to hatred indictment instigated the unpropertied instigation to hatred institutions KARL MARX labor landed property matter means ment outcome pamphlet passage peasant wars penalty person philosophy point of fact political pope present President and Gentlemen Price principle of society Privy Counsellor propertied classes Prussian public peace public prosecutor question rémonstrance Revolution of 1848 ROBERT BLATCHFORD Schelling scientific doctrine scientific inquiry scientific teaching Section 100 Silver Cross system of elections teaching is free tempt things THORSTEIN VEBLEN three-class system tific tion Tocsin torical Translated University University of Paris wealth words workingmen
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Page 16 - Quasi lignum vitae," says Pope Alexander IV. in a constitution addressed to the University of Paris in 1255. "Quasi lignum vitse in Paradiso Dei, et quasi lucerna fulgoris in Domo Domini, est in Sancta Ecclesia Parisiensis Studii disciplina.
Page 39 - ... provisional government; and, further, there was proclaimed universal, equal and direct suffrage, which is in point of method the means whereby this conception of the State is to be realized. February, 1848, therefore, marks the dawning of the historical period in which the ethical principle of the working classes is consciously accepted as the guiding principle of society. We have reason to congratulate ourselves upon living in an epoch consecrated to the achievement of this exalted end. But,...
Page 36 - The ultimate and intrinsic end of the state, therefore, is to further the positive unfolding, the progressive development of human life. In other words, its function is to work out in actual achievement the true end of man; that is to say, the full degree of culture of which human nature is capable. It is the education and evolution of mankind into freedom.
Page 35 - ... assigned the individual his status on the basis of descent and social rank, whereas the principal for which the bourgeoisie stands contends that all such legal restriction is iniquitous, and that the individual must be counted simply as such, with no prerogative beyond guaranteeing him the unhindered opportunity to make the most of his capacities as an individual. Now, I claim, if we all were by native gift equally wealthy, equally capable, equally well educated, then this principle of equal...
Page 37 - ... which we were held under the state of nature at the beginning of history. The progressive overcoming of this impotence, — this is the evolution of liberty, whereof history is an account. In this struggle we should never have made one step in advance, and we should never take a further step, if we had gone into the struggle singly, each for himself. Now the State is precisely this contemplated unity and cooperation of individuals in a moral whole, whose function it is to carry on this struggle,...
Page 31 - ... objective unfolding of rational thought which has lain at the root of European history for more than a thousand years past; it is an exposition of that inner soul of things resident in the process of history that manifests itself in the apparently • I have fought not without glory. VOL. X— 29 opaque, empirical sequence of events and which, has produced this historical sequence out of its own. moving, creative force. It is, in spite of the brief compass of the pamphlet, the strictly developed...
Page 52 - ... August Bockh, Efficient Privy Councillor Johannes Schultze, formerly Director of the Ministry of Public Worship, Professor Adolf Trendelenburg, Privy Councillor and Chief Librarian Dr. Pertz, Professor Leopold Ranke, Professor Theodor Mommsen, Privy Councillor Professor Hanssen, all members of the Royal Academy of Science, and as specialists capable of judging in the matter, be constituted a subsidiary tribunal to pass on the question, whether the address in question is not in the strict sense...
Page 45 - ... that pervades European life. These two things are science and the people, science and the workingman. And the union of these two is alone capable of invigorating European culture with a new life. The union of these two polar opposites of modern society, science and the workingman, — when these" two join forces they will crush all obstacles to cultural advance with an iron hand, and it is to this union that I have resolved to devote my life so long as there is breath in my body. But, Gentlemen,...