Quote#Politics & Power
The human race was now a single entity with a supreme responsibility…
Quote byRobert Hugh Benson · 1871–1914
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lord of the World (1907), Bk. 3, ch. 3, sec. 1 (p. 319).
English (original)
The human race was now a single entity with a supreme responsibility towards itself; there were no longer any private rights at all, such as had certainly existed, in the period previous to this. Man now possessed dominion over every cell which composed His Mystical Body, and where any such cell asserted itself to the detriment of the Body, the rights of the whole were unqualified.
— Robert Hugh Benson
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