There are evidently limits to the achievements of science and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy. (Reinhold Niebuhr)

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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