Quote#Education
The world, I mean our own portion of it, sometimes seems to me like…
Quote byWilliam Alcott · 1798–1859
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Vegetable Diet (1838), p. 268.
English (original)
The world, I mean our own portion of it, sometimes seems to me like one mighty slaughter-house — one grand school for the suppression of every kind and tender and brotherly feeling — one grand process of education to the entire destitution of all moral principle — one vast scene of destruction to all moral sensibility, and all sympathy with the woes of those around us. Is it not so?
— William Alcott
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