"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

Time, Morality, Majority

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"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike."

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