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Here physical causes do not create the moral, but moral create the physical; here the beginning is by the higher energy, the conservation and propagation only by the lower.
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Walter Bagehot
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gutenberg.orgWalter Bagehot: “Here physical causes do not create the moral, but moral create the physical; here the beginning is by the higher energy…”
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Bagehot argues that moral forces shape physical realities, reversing common assumptions.
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