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“A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.”

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Book:Lothair

Source: Lothair

“Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.”

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Book:On Education

Source: On Education

“[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue.”

Humans Whole Law Moral Virtue Duty Attainment Fulfilment Moral Law

Author:Frances Power Cobbe

“Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.”

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Author:Max Anders

“The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. I'm not contending in a dogmatic way that there is not a God. What I'm contending is that we don't know that there is. I don't like the word "absolute." I don't think there is anything absolute whatever. The moral law, for example, is always changing. At one period in the development of the human race, almost everybody thought cannibalism was a duty.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Humans Facts Law Belief Race Moral Effects Example Duty Development Periods Evidence Absolutes Favors Human Race Dogmatic Moral Law Cannibalism Contending Good Moral

Author:Bertrand Russell

“What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood