Blaise Pascal Quotes
Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.
Pascal, Blaise. "Preface to the Treatise on the Vacuum." Harvard Classics: Scientific Papers, edited by Charles W. Eliot, P.F. Collier & Son, 1910, p. 75.
As humans develop, their mental innovations and understanding of justice, fairness, freedom and standard of living in turn drive their political ideology which in turn drives most revolutions as Humboldt postulated. And this is before he had the example of the French and Russian Revolutions much less the revolutions of South America, Asia and the fall of the Soviet Union.
In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become very critical of organized and orthodox religion of all kinds.
While this is often true, it is another Mises exaggeration using the word “every” in this quotation. Darwin’s theory of evolution was immediately accepted by most other scientists and intellectuals. The opponents then were the religious fundamentalists. The same is true today. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was accepted by most other scientist as soon as they read it and worked out the mathematics. That was before there was any physical or experimental evidence, which did not come till 1919.
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian.
