Vulgar words in Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) - Addresses to Ethical Societies (Page 1)
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It reflects and gives sensuous images of truth; but it is only the Philistine or the blockhead who can seriously ask, is it true?
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You embody your principle in some concrete person; canonise him or damn him, as he represents truth or error; and take credit to yourself for insight and for a lofty morality.
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If we allowed our teaching and our thinking to be done by blockheads; our hard labour to be done by men whose muscles were less developed than their brains; made our soldiers out of our cowards, and our sailors out of the sea-sick,--should we be better off?
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How can it be just to place a being where he is certain to sin, and then to damn him for sinning?