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The century's little tin gods that failed. (Karl Marx, Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud)(Millenium: The Future is Now. Are We Ready? - 10th Anniversary Issue)(Cover Story)

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From: Insight on the News
Date: 19951002
Author:Goode, Stephen

Marxism, Freudianism and Darwinism were secular stars during the 20th century. Marxist governments ruled millions of people and millions more were believers. All are gone except in a changing China. The next century may see the rise of religion to fill the gap left by a failure of secularism.

The ideas of Marx, Freud and Darwin dominated the century and declined as faith returned.

Future historians no doubt will record with some amazement the rapid rise and equally rapid decline, or at least retreat, of the three principal "isms" that dominated 20th-century thought and culture, ...

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