...the evils which we deplore in our present society are not the inevitable results of any unalterable laws of nature, or any kind of inexorable necessity, but are the fruits of human blindness, wilfulness and selfishness on the widest scale and in the long course of history; and that therefore their alteration demands something more than legislative and external changes, necesary as these may be: it demands a fundamental change of the spirit in which we think about and live our common life...
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