Status Updates From The Greeks and the Irrational

Here Marxist analysis has hit on a cleverer answer: experiment failed to develop because there was no serious technology; there was no serious technology because human labour was cheap; human labour was cheap because slaves were abundant. Thus by a neat chain of inference the rise of the mediaeval world-view is shown to depend on the institution of slavery.

religious growth is geological: its principle is, on the whole and with exceptions, agglomeration, not substitution. A new belief-pattern very seldom effaces completely the pattern that was there before: either the old lives on as an element in the new—sometimes an unconfessed and half-unconscious element—or else the two persist side by side, logically incompatible, but contemporaneously accepted

religion and morals were not initially interdependent, in Greece or elsewhere; they had their separate roots. […] religion grows out of man's relationship to his total environment, morals out of his relation to his fellowmen. But sooner or later in most cultures there comes a time of suffering when most people refuse to be content with Achilles' view, the view that "God's in his Heaven, all's wrong with the world."

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