We moderns have set ourselves at work with all our might, have acquired technical perfection, have combined isolated achievements into great systems.
Modernity has abandoned religion’s mode of conceiving life and the world sub specie aeternitatis, has left eternity colorless and empty, in its uncurbed desire to plunge full into the current of the time, to uplift conditions here, and from this world to derive all its forces.
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