Surely there is but one assumption [...] wherewith nearly all thinkers [...] have done their work-that is, the confession of the moral law: that there is a good, and that pure cruelty, mere hatred, and ingratitude, for example, are contrary thereto. (Alice Meynell)

Surely there is but one assumption [...] wherewith nearly all thinkers [...] have done their work-that is, the confession of the moral law: that there is a good, and that pure cruelty, mere hatred, and ingratitude, for example, are contrary thereto.

Alice Meynell

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