“I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.”

—  John Stuart Mill

Source: An examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings

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