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The time, indeed, could admit no neutrality in any person worthy of the name of man.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The time, indeed, could admit no neutrality in any person worthy of the name of man.”
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Burke argues that true humanity does not allow for neutrality in times of moral crisis.
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