| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 38154 |
| QUOTATION: | There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Karl Marx (1818–1883), German social philosopher, revolutionary. Speech, April 14, 1856, London. People’s Paper (London, April 19, 1856), repr. In Surveys from Exile (1973). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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