love of humanity

of the fanatical kind ends in Shigalov's paradise — the one for whose loss man is always sighing.

Recast in definition form from: “Shigalov is somewhat fanatical in his love for humanity, but remember that Fourier, still more Cabet and even Proudhon himself, advocated a number of the most despotic and even fantastic measures He is perhaps less far from realism than anyone and his earthly paradise is almost the real one—if it ever existed—for the loss of which man is always sighing.”

in the abstract is nearly always love of self — it is not in nature to love everybody.

Recast in definition form from: “I often ask myself—is it possible to love everybody? Indeed it is not; it is not in nature. Abstract love of humanity is nearly always love of self.”

was born for the Self-Taught Man in a dark prison shed, two hundred men crushed together so tightly he thought he would suffocate — and then an overwhelming joy.

Recast in definition form from: “… I thought I was going suffocate, then, suddenly, an overwhelming …”

without God: "think about keeping down the price of meat" — "but you, without a God, are more likely to raise the price of meat, if it suits you, and make a rouble on every copeck."

Recast in definition form from: “I answered him, ‘Well, but you, without a God, are more likely to raise the price of meat, if it suits you, and make a rouble on every copeck.’”

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love of humanity, n.All

love of humanity