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A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves…”
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Burke reflects on the innate human aversion to injustice as a protective mechanism.
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