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Political economy that ignores social affection is perhaps the most curious and least creditable delusion
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- John Ruskin English art critic and social thinker (1819 to 1900)
Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious—certainly the least creditable—is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection.
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