That some contrivance has been devised or some increment of power obtained which will enabled human beings to move faster … or later more rapidly the… - C. E. M. Joad

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That some contrivance has been devised or some increment of power obtained which will enabled human beings to move faster … or later more rapidly the position of matter in space than before is in the contemporary world regarded as a sufficient reason for making use of it. Nobody ever asks whether the use of the contrivance, the employment of the power, will make us happier, wiser, or better.

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About C. E. M. Joad

Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (12 August 1891 – 9 April 1953) was an English philosopher and broadcasting personality. During the 1940s, he was a participant in The Brains Trust, a BBC Radio discussion programme. He popularised philosophy and became a celebrity, before his downfall in a scandal over an unpaid train fare in 1948.

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وباختصار نتبين أن اهتمامنا بالأشياء متناسب مع معرفتنا إلى درجة كبيرة وكذلك حبنا للأشياء أن من الحجج الكثيرة التي تدعو لقراءة الآداب العظيمة لأنه بتوسيع مجالنا وتعمق فهمنا للعالم يمكننا أن نلمس فيه جمالا أكبر، ونشعر بهوى أعمق ويتسع أفق مشاركتنا الوجدانية وإحساسنا بالحياة عن قبل، وهكذا يجعل الأدب الحياة أكثر لذة، ويجب أن نثقف عقولنا بهمة لأنه كلما كنا أكثر ذكاء كلما ازدادت لذتنا في هذا العالم الذي نحيا فيه. يجب علينا أن ننمي أسمى العناصر في شخصيتنا فيها عن طريقها فقط نستطيع أن نفهم ونقدر الأشياء القيمة، الأشياء التي أطلقنا عليها بأنها خيرة في حد ذاتها

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We shall demand complete toleration for the expression of any and every doctrine under the sun, even - and here is the acid test of our belief in toleration - of those doctrines which would forbid the expression of any except themselves. We must, in a word, be tolerant even of those views which deny tolerance. [...] Those who believe in freedom may not deny men the right to advocate unfreedom. We cannot in the name of a principle take action which denies the principle. Hence those of us who care for liberty must forgo the use of the weapon upon which its opponents pride themselves.

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