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“Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.”

Men Mind Humans Able Natural Subjects Mankind Objects Behavior Advantage Fellows Extraordinary Analysis Human Mind Contemplating Human Behavior Fellow Man Investigators

Book:Essential works

Source: Essential works

“Man is endowed by nature with organic relations to his fellow men; and natural impulse prompts him to consider the needs of others even when they compete with his own.”

Men Needs Natural Relation Fellows Impulse Fellow Man Prompts Needs Of Others

Book:Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

“Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit.”

Men Two Ideas Reason Natural Acting Compassion Influence Habit Fellows Blame Remains Selfish Punishment Motive Etc Association Fellow Man Rations Dishonour Selfish Reasons Acting Badly

Author:African Spir

“The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.”

Natural Religious Common Opinion Atheism Citizens Office Advantage Fellows Privilege Positive Atheism Unworthy Renounce Incapacity Depriving

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.”

Men Found Natural Race Fellows Instinct Civilized Fellow Man Aboriginal Civilized Society Cannibal

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton