Goldsmith Composed

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“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway,
And fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
—William James (1842–1910)