Moral Realists

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“... social advance depends quite as much upon an increase in moral sensibility as it does upon a sense of duty ...”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)

“Allusion has been made to [Proust’s] contempt for the literature that “describes,” for the realists and naturalists worshipping the offal of experience, prostrate before the epidermis and the swift epilepsy, and content to transcribe the surface, the façade, behind which the Idea is prisoner.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)