Man carries within himself not only his individuality but all of humanity, with all its potentialities, although he can realize these potentialities in only a limited way because of the external limitations of his individual existence.
Goethe, as quoted by Erich Fromm in the introduction to Socialist Humanism: An International Symposium, edited by Erich Fromm (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1966), vii.
I am unable to locate the original source of this quote as Fromm does not provide any citation. Anyone know its provenance?
Published on April 4, 2008
in family.
Elizabeth and I finished reading through the Ramona Quimby series last night. We sat silently next to each on the floor of her room after I finished reading the last page.
“I’m gonna miss Ramona,” Elizabeth said after several minutes pause.
“Me too.”
I put Ramona’s World back on the small pine bookshelf at the foot of her bed next to the other volumes of Beverly Cleary.
“Don’t worry, we’ll read it together again soon.”
Elizabeth smiled, stood up, and went off to take her evening shower.
I have now posted the English translation of the novenary of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente under the documents tab on this website.
The translation was published a year after the Tagalog translation. It was again printed by Isabelo de los Reyes in Manila. The printing of the English version is of much poorer quality. The translator is invisible, as is so often the case.
I am still hard at work on my thesis. I have been collecting relevant primary source materials during my research, many of which I have scanned as Adobe PDF files. I intend to begin making some of these materials available here.
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The first item which I am posting is a Novenary of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente. Originally written by Gregorio Aglipay in Spanish, this text was translated into Tagalog by Juan N. Evangelista and published in 1925 in Manila by Isabelo de los Reyes.
The text is fascinating. It walks through, in the nine days of a novena, a series of scientific, critical, and rational ideas; it instructs the participant in ideas of evolution and natural selection and a historical-critical approach to the Bible and theology.
You can access the entire text from the Documents tab of this website.
[I]t is precisely the advantage of the new trend that we do not dogmatically anticipate the world, but only want to find the new world through criticism of the old one… but if constructing the future and settling everything for all times are not our affair, it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.
Karl Marx, Letters from Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher, September, 1843 in Collected Works, Volume 3 (New York: International Publishers, 1975), 142-43.
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