The Class War.-Marxconceives the wage-earner and the capitalist in a sharp antithesis.

Death and Resurrection, mourning and rejoicing, present themselves in sharp antithesis in each and all of the forms.

Here, in sharp antithesis to one another, the two divergent tendencies and contrasted characteristics of their family stood revealed.

When therefore the city State, with its sharp antithesis of classes, began to decline, the ideal of the soldier-citizen declined also.

This sharp antithesis is connected with the fact that Athenian philosophy began as a criticism of custom and tradition as standards of knowledge and conduct.