From Charles Sanders Peirce, "Evolutionary Love"

Charles Peirce, "Evolutionary Love", at ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY: "Undoubtedly the external circumstance, which more than all others at first inclined men to accept Christianity in its loveliness and tenderness, was the fearful extent to which society was broken up into units by the unmitigated greed and hard-heartedness into which the Romans had seduced the world. And yet it was that very same fact, more than any other external circumstance, that fostered that bitterness against the wicked world of which the primitive gospel of Mark contains not a single trace."

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