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"Human action is a manifestation of the mind." - Ludwig von Mises</center>
'He advocated non-violence...'<blockquote>'Tolstoy takes the viewpoint that all governments who wage war are an affront to Christian principles. When Christ says to turn the other cheek, Tolstoy asserts that he means simply that and rejects the interpretations of Roman and medieval scholars who attempted to limit its scope, writing:
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“How can you kill people, when it is written in God’s commandment: ‘Thou shalt not murder’?”– Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You</blockquote>
Tolstoy presented excerpts from magazines and newspapers relating various personal experiences, and gave keen insight into the history of non-resistance as being professed by a minority of believers from the very foundation of Christianity. In particular, he confronts those who argue that such a change to a non-violent society would be disastrous with the following recourse:
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“That this social order with its pauperism, famines, prisons, gallows, armies, and wars is necessary to society; that still greater disaster would ensue if this organization were destroyed; all this is said only by those who profit by this organization, while those who suffer from it – and they are ten times as numerous – think and say quite the contrary.”– Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You</blockquote>
Tolstoy recounted challenges by people ... that his views on non-resistance were wrong, but argued that no matter how the challengers tried to attack the doctrine, its essence could not be overcome. He advocated non-violence as a solution to nationalist woes and as a means for seeing the hypocrisy of the church. In reading Jesus' words in the Gospels, Tolstoy notes that the modern church is a heretical creation:
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“Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church.”– Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You'</blockquote>
- Wikipedia,
The Kingdom of God Is Within You</blockquote>
'...within you.'<blockquote>'nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you." '
- Luke 17:21 (New International Version (©1984) -
Source)</blockquote>
"We are talking far too much about God these days.."<blockquote>'The Case for God is an important ... book to read, a treat for non-believers and believers alike. I cannot think of a single book that covers more theological territory, and gives a more thorough base of understanding to speak from. Atheists and theologians will have many "Aha!" moments; those who feel secure in their current faith will pause to think, and then find the need to think again.
The Case for God contains a deep conundrum, in that it seeks to make an Ineffable God somewhat effable. It seeks to pursue a God that Armstrong insists cannot be known by rational thought, by making the most rational argument for God that I've personally encountered. The first ten words of this 432 page book are "We are talking far too much about God these days.." Her book is a koan, and more is the pleasure that this is true!'
- Daniel Murphy,
Atheists and Believers: Check your Guns at the Door, and Come on In!, December 19, 2009</blockquote>
Wisdom’s Call - Proverbs 8'When asked by the British government to advise on the production of chemical weapons for use in the Crimean War (1853–1856), Faraday refused to participate citing ethical reasons.'<blockquote>'...The young Michael Faraday, the third of four children, having only the most basic of school educations, had to largely educate himself.<sup><a href="[
en.wikipedia.org];[11]</a></sup> At fourteen he became apprenticed to a local bookbinder and bookseller George Riebau in Blandford St<sup><a href= "[
en.wikipedia.org];[12]</a></sup> and, during his seven-year apprenticeship, he read many books, including
Isaac Watts'
The Improvement of the Mind, and he enthusiastically implemented the principles and suggestions that it contained. He developed an interest in science, especially in electricity.
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He invented an early form of what was to become the Bunsen burner, which is used almost universally in science laboratories as a convenient source of heat.
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Faraday also discovered the laws of electrolysis and popularised terminology such as anode, cathode, electrode, and ion, terms largely created by
William Whewell.
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Near the end of his career, Faraday proposed that electromagnetic forces extended into the empty space around the conductor. This idea was rejected by his fellow scientists, and Faraday did not live to see this idea eventually accepted. Faraday's concept of lines of flux emanating from charged bodies and magnets provided a way to visualise electric and magnetic fields. That mental model was crucial to the successful development of electromechanical devices that dominated engineering and industry for the remainder of the 19th century.
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Faraday was an excellent experimentalist who conveyed his ideas in clear and simple language. However, his mathematical abilities did not extend as far as trigonometry or any but the simplest algebra. It was James Clerk Maxwell who took the work of Faraday, and others, and consolidated it with a set of equations that lie at the base of all modern theories of electromagnetic phenomena. On Faraday's uses of the lines of force, Maxwell wrote that they show Faraday "to have been in reality a mathematician of a very high order — one from whom the mathematicians of the future may derive valuable and fertile methods."<sup><a href="[
en.wikipedia.org];[38]</a></sup>
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When asked by the British government to advise on the production of chemical weapons for use in the Crimean War (1853–1856), Faraday refused to participate citing ethical reasons.<sup><a href="[
en.wikipedia.org];[42]</a></sup>'
- Wikipedia,
Michael Faraday</blockquote>