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We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.

Karl Barth

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Karl Barth
Age: 82 †
Born: 1886
Born: May 10
Died: 1968
Died: December 10
Pastor
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University Teacher
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Depravity
Within
Antagonism
Moral
Classes
War
Tyranny
Business
Slave
Spirit
Competition
World
Economic
Passion
Wrongdoing

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