"But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?"

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We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.

— Robert Charles Wilson