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There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

George Eliot
Men, Compassion, Feelings
George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.406, Penguin
There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.