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Lafcadio Hearn

“Apparently, the highest evolution will not be permitted to creatures capable of what human moral experience has in all eras condemned. Apparently, the highest possible strength is the strength of unselfishness; and power supreme never will be accorded to cruelty or to lust. There may be no gods; but the forces that shape and dissolve all forms of being would seem to be much more exacting than gods. To prove a "dramatic tendency" in the ways of the stars is not possible; but the cosmic process seems nevertheless to affirm the worth of every human system of ethics fundamentally opposed to human egoism.”

Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn
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