“There is no sympathy, no consciousness of kind, no realization that the emotions experienced by that valiant little creature struggling to avoid the mouths of those instinct-maddened dogs are similar to the emotions they themselves would experience in an identical predicament.”

Source: Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899), Egoism and Altruism, pp. 117

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