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  • noun religion, uncommon Simony.

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Examples

  • They did not consider themselves unarmed prophets, for they firmly believed in the social power of scientific proof and even, in the case of Saint-Simonism, in the seizure of power by science.

    The Society of the Spectacle-by Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009

  • They did not consider themselves unarmed prophets, for they firmly believed in the social power of scientific proof and even, in the case of Saint-Simonism, in the seizure of power by science.

    2009 October 2009

  • At this particular time he was going from Saint – Simonism into republicanism, to return, very likely, to ministerialism.

    A Daughter of Eve 2007

  • Saint-Simonism too was abroad with its utopian ideals, attracting some of the loftier minds, but less appreciated by the masses than the teachings of other semi-secret societies having aims more material.

    Balzac 2003

  • Saint-Simonism too was abroad with its utopian ideals, attracting some of the loftier minds, but less appreciated by the masses than the teachings of other semi-secret societies having aims more material.

    Balzac Frederick Lawton

  • Marx, with his usual penetration, saw in Saint-Simonism the hidden germ of a great truth, the embryo of a profound social theory.

    Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles John Spargo 1921

  • Saint-Simonism was, as it were, an appeal to the "Rerum Novarum".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Lamartine describes Saint-Simonism as "a daring plagiarism which emerges from the Gospel and will return thither", and Isaac Pereire, the last of the Saint-Simonians, in a work entitled, "La question religieuse"

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Saint-Simonism left its mark on such men as the philosopher Jean Reynaud, Buchez, who in 1848 played an important political part, the religious critic Gustave d'Eichthal the economists Barrault and Michel Chevalier, the publicists Edouard

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Saint-Simonism was universally jeered at, but it is quite a mistake to think that ridicule is detrimental in France.

    George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings 1910

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