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==Bonn University==
 
==Bonn University==
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However, Marx's Christian education had little lasting impact. Starting the study of law at Bonn University in October 1835, he was not academically successful, and proved to be a disappointment to his parents,<ref>John Spargo , ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=oM0WAAAAYAAJ Karl Marx: His Life and Work]'' (B. W. Huebsch, 1912) , p. 33</ref> confirming his opinion “that in your heart egoism is predominant.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1835-fl1.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], November 8, 1835, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), p. 645</ref> After barely a month at university, Marx seems to have embraced atheism. Heinrich disapproved, warning his son:
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However, Marx's Christian education had little lasting impact. Starting the study of law at Bonn University in October 1835, he was not academically successful, and proved to be a disappointment to his parents,<ref>John Spargo , ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=oM0WAAAAYAAJ Karl Marx: His Life and Work]'' (B. W. Huebsch, 1912) , p. 33</ref> confirming his father's opinion “that in your heart egoism is predominant.”<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1835-fl1.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], November 8, 1835, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), p. 645</ref> After barely a month at university, Marx seems to have embraced atheism. Heinrich disapproved, warning his son:
 
{{cquote|[A] great support for morality is pure faith in God. You know that I am anything but a fanatic. But this faith is a real [require]ment of man sooner or later, and there are moments in life when even the atheist is [involun]tarily drawn to worship the Almighty... for what Newton, Locke and Leibniz believed, everyone can [...] submit to.<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1835-fl2.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], November 18, 1835, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 645-648</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|[A] great support for morality is pure faith in God. You know that I am anything but a fanatic. But this faith is a real [require]ment of man sooner or later, and there are moments in life when even the atheist is [involun]tarily drawn to worship the Almighty... for what Newton, Locke and Leibniz believed, everyone can [...] submit to.<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/letters/papa/1835-fl2.htm Letter from Heinrich Marx to son Karl], November 18, 1835, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, ''[http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/ Collected Works]'' (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975), [http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/cw/volume01/index.htm Vol. I] (Trans. Robert Dixon), pp. 645-648</ref>}}
  
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