“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
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The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.
No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.
Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.