"We have learned the doctrine that evil means pain, and the revolt against pain in all is forms has grown more and more marked. From societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals up to socialism, we express in numberless ways the notion that suffering is a wrong which can and ought to be prevented, and a whole literature of sympathy has sprung into being."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., "The Soldier's Faith", 1895; cited in Without God, Without Creed, James Turner, 1985, p. 206.
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