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CHAPTER XII. Charity

The Life of Reason: the Phases of Human Progress · George Santayana — chapter 53 of 115 · ~42 words · public domain

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CHARITY

Possible tyranny of reason.—Everything has its rights.—Primary and secondary morality.—Uncharitable pagan justice is not just.—The doom of ancient republics.—Rational charity.—Its limits.—Its mythical supports.—There is intelligence in charity.—Buddhist and Christian forms of it.—Apparent division of the spiritual and the natural. Pages 214-228

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