Until you are conscious of your conscience, you are morally unconscious.
This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity__hat of sympathy and pity toward living creatures like himself__nd by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life!
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This is dreadful! Not the suffering and death of the animals, but that man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity__hat of sympathy and pity toward living creatures like himself__nd by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life!
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