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The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The emergence of the landless working class added a final piece to the great transformation of England’s economy: they became the world’s first mass consumer population, for they depended on markets for even the most basic goods necessary for survival: clothes, food, housing, and so on. It was these three forces – enclosure, mass displacement of peasants and the creation of a consumer market – that provided the internal conditions for the Industrial Revolution. The external conditions, as we have seen, had to do with the colonisation of the Americas and the slave trade.
Here in brief is James’s credo: replace the divine with the human wherever necessary and useful; believe and consider true whatever you need to believe, even God, in order to be the person you want to be; and be mindful, and admiring where you can, of the preceding generations that give you a language – the only language you have – to make a new language out of.
On Getting Better
Adam Phillips
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