Source: Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III, Ch.12
“The force of custom or habits even proverbial; and accordingly we take advantage of the magnified representation in which we have been pleased to paint its effects, to veil our eyes from the sufferings of others, of mankind as well as of brutes; and whatever be their lots, if they suffer from over exertion, from being flogged, from exposure in danger, from want, from cold, from heat, etc., we lull our imagination with the idea that they do not feel those evils: custom we say is second nature.”
Source: Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824), Chapter 2, p. 53
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