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1896–1982 England

Walter Ernest Christopher James, 4th Baron Northbourne (18 January 1896 – 17 June 1982) was an English agriculturalist, author and rower who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.

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Also known as: Lord Northbourne

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Science ... cannot conceive of any means of achieving that escape from desires we call "contentment" otherwise than through the satisfaction of those desires; it has not yet learnt that there is no limit to the multiplication of desires, nor that, since different people's desires are often mutually incompatible, an indefinite multiplication of desires increases conflict as well as discontent.

Anyone who clings to religion is clinging, not to an arbitrary framework of man's devising, but to the only framework that can serve as a starting-point for the realization of an inward freedom that is independent of terrestrial contingencies.

Intellectual Freedom (1971)

If the confusion, fear and discontent of our times seem to be reaching towards an extreme, despite a technological development bringing a wealth and a luxury unparalleled in history, why is an exactly coincident decay of religion scarcely ever suggested as a causal factor?

Intellectual Freedom (1971)

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