“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.”

—  Jane Addams

As quoted in The MacMillan Dictionary of Quotations (1989) by John Daintith, Hazel Egerton, Rosalind Ferguson, Anne Stibbs and Edmund Wright, p. 374.

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