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... common good - is an altruistic ideal so contrary to the immediate promptings of the animal within us that it is not strange that it found little place in the thinking or acting of the ancient world , or , for that matter , in the acting ...
... common good - is an altruistic ideal so contrary to the immediate promptings of the animal within us that it is not strange that it found little place in the thinking or acting of the ancient world , or , for that matter , in the acting ...
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... common good as contrasted with one's own individual im- pulses and interests , wherever in one's own judgment the two come into conflict ; and second , inspiring mankind to do , rather than merely to think about , its duty , the ...
... common good as contrasted with one's own individual im- pulses and interests , wherever in one's own judgment the two come into conflict ; and second , inspiring mankind to do , rather than merely to think about , its duty , the ...
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... common sense , and common decency - though much more accessible than those of the saint , still go against the grain of the natural man - terribly against the grain , one is forced to conclude from a cool survey of the facts of history ...
... common sense , and common decency - though much more accessible than those of the saint , still go against the grain of the natural man - terribly against the grain , one is forced to conclude from a cool survey of the facts of history ...
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