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Thomas Jefferson on Taste and Morality

Thomas Jefferson, "Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814" (1814)
Go The creator would indeed have been a bungling artist, had he intended man for a social animal, without planting in him social dispositions. It is true they are not planted in every man; because there is no rule without exceptions: but it is false reasoning which converts exceptions into the general rule. Some men are born without the organs of sight, or of hearing, or without hands. Yet it would be wrong to say that man is born without these faculties: and sight, hearing and hands may with truth enter into the general definition of Man.

John Dewey on an Open Universe Without Bounds or Final Causes

John Dewey, "Ethics," a public lecture delivered at Columbia University in March, 1908, under the title of  in a series of lectures on " Science, Philosophy, and Art."
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To many timid, albeit sincere, souls of an earlier century, the decay of the doctrine that all true and worthful science is knowledge of final causes seemed fraught with danger to science and to morals. The rival conception of a wide open universe, a universe without bounds in time or space, without final limits of origin or destiny, a universe with the lid off, was a menace. We now face in moral science a similar crisis and like opportunity, as well as share in a like dreadful suspense.