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The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Adam Smith

Sympathy, therefore, does not arise so much from the view of the passion, as from that of the situation which excites it. We sometimes feel for another, a passion of which he himself seems to be altog..

A Vision of the Future, Based on the Application of Ethical Principles

Jane Hume Clapperton

The toil of man’s daily life alas! is indeed as the straining and jolting of a lumbering wagon,—it grovels, it wallows, it drags wearily, and the soul of the wagoner soars not. But there are few think..