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> [Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/since-everything-in-nature-answers-to-a-moral-power-if-any-phenomenon/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a world not constructed for us. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-jay-gould/there-are-no-shortcuts-to-moral-insight-nature-is-not-intrinsically/)

[Stephen Jay Gould](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-jay-gould/)

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