“The inhabitants of the earth are bound to each other by the ties and obligations of a common kinship. Man is simply one of a series of sentients, differing in degree, but not in kind, from the beings below, above, and around him.”

—  J. Howard Moore

Source: The New Ethics (1907), The Thesis of the New Ethics, p. 15

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