"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.“

-William James

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"Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible that too was refused by his inhuman jailer."

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