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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

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religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the a...more

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It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal...more

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Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being compelled by some more imperative duty, or justifi...more

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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought ...more