Agents Quote by Richard Whately

“Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.”

Richard Whately

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knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy.

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