Indeed, only a most shallow disputant who did not understand even the plainest facts of human nature could ever have maintained it; if men differ in anything they differ in the fineness and the delicacy of their moral intuitions, however we may suppose those feelings to have been acquired.
Bagehot critiques those who deny differences in moral intuitions among individuals, emphasizing the complexity of human nature.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Savages waste away before modern civilisation; they seem to have held their ground before the ancient.
He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.
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