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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, ch. 11 "Ethics and Religion" (1998) - Wilson, E. O. | WIST Quotations
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the…