There are law-abiding and agreeable people who think and talk about humanity and life as if they were discussing the best way

There are law-abiding and agreeable people who think and talk about humanity and life as if they were discussing the best way of breeding sheep, or buying and selling land. These are the economists of morality, and really all morality without philosophy, no matter how sophisticated and sublimely poetical, always retains a certain intolerant and economical hue.

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