What G. K. Chesterton thinks about empathy

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English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936); author of Orthodoxy.

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   Our readingDoing justice to a microbe needs detachment from being human, but doing justice to people does not

   Their wordsIt is necessary to cease to be a man in order to do justice to a microbe; it is not necessary to cease to be a man in order to do justice to men.

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