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Oops - sorry Jerry to repeat your findings - you changed the title of the thread!! Chris On 31 Mar 2006, at 20:48, Jerry Levy wrote:
Hi David,
It is a composite quote from Engels and _The Bible_.
The quote (from memory): "What all these gentlemen lack is dialectic.
Above is in a letter to Schmidt dated 10/27/90 (last paragraph).
Their communication is 'yea, yea, nay, nay, and whatsoever cometh not of these cometh of evil.'"
Mathew 5:37.
Quoted in "Introduction" to _Anti-Duhring_.
Also, by M&E in _The German Ideology_ (in section "The moderns A. The spirit ....)
In solidarity, Jerry
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