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Better motives--better impulses, rather--come from a good body: worse motives or worse impulses come from a bad body.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Better motives--better impulses, rather--come from a good body: worse motives or worse impulses come from a bad body.”
Editor's note · Context
He posits that physical health influences moral impulses, linking bodily condition to ethical behavior.
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