“The evolution of consciousness in its social and ethical aspects consists in the evolution of the ability to make real and vivid the phenomena that are more and more distant in both space and time.”

"Modern Ethics", pp. 268–269
The Universal Kinship (1906), The Ethical Kinship

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1862–1916

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