Quotation of the Day…
Posted By Don Boudreaux On February 29, 2012 @ 7:41 am In Civil Society,Hubris and humility | Comments Disabled
… is from page 687 of the 1999 Oxford World’s Classics edition of one of my all-time favorite novels, George Eliot’s magisterial Middlemarch [1]:
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.
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