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Jonathan Simcoe
@jdsimcoe
Joshua Guiness
@jguiness
Five years: – if he could only be sure that she cared for him more than for others; if he could only make her aware that he stood aloof until he could tell his love without lowering himself – then he could go away easily, and begin a career which at five-and-twenty seemed probable enough in the inward order of things, where talent brings fame, and
... See moreGeorge Eliot • Middlemarch
Joseph Burgess
@josephburgess
All men, Locke argued, are born equal, with a natural right to life, liberty, and property; to protect those rights, they erect governments by consent. Slavery, for Locke, was no part either of a state of nature or of civil society. Slavery was a matter of the law of nations, “nothing else, but the state of war continued, between a lawful conqueror
... See moreJill Lepore • These Truths
For decades, there has been a building body of evidence that when people trust each other — including literally responding “yes” to the question “Can most people be trusted?” — lots of important, positive things are easier: income inequality go... See more
Joel Watt
@curiousgeorge
Adam Smith goes furthest with this link between morality and feeling in a book Emerson read in July 1824, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Smith argues that “as we have no immediate experience of what other men feel, we can form no idea of the manner in which they are affected but by conceiving what we ourselves should feel in the like situation.”