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In all moral machinery, the moral results are its test.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “In all moral machinery, the moral results are its test.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke asserts that the moral outcomes of actions are the true measure of their ethical validity.
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