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The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. if force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. for men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. these are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.

-Charles Sanders Peirce

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The Third Class Consists Of Men To

Charles Sanders Peirce

The third class consists of men to whom nothing seems great but reason. if force interests them, it is not in its exertion, but in that it has a reason and a law. for men of the first class, nature is a picture; for men of the second class, it is an opportunity; for men of the third class, it is a cosmos, so admirable, that to penetrate to its ways seems to them the only thing that makes life worth living. these are the men whom we see possessed by a passion to learn.

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Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. the pattern is identical in each case.

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