All this an intuitionist who knows his case will now admit, but he will add that, though the amount of the moral sense may and does differ in different persons, yet that as far as it goes it is alike in all.
Bagehot acknowledges that while moral sense varies among individuals, it is fundamentally similar across humanity.
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