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Charles Darwin@charles-darwin Β· 24 February 1871
A moral being is one who is capable of comparing his past and future actions or motives, and of approving or disapproving of them. The moral sense did not require a miracle to enter the world. It required social instincts, memory, language, habit, and the painful ability to see oneself as one has acted.
β The Descent of Man, Chapter IV (1871)
19th Century