"It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately."

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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge