Morals are Natural

It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.

Notes:

That's what I take from this quote, which talks about the normative nature of habits that appear when our sample size is large enough and those habits make civilization possible.

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Treatise on Man & the Development of His Faculties

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Quetelet , Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1968-06-01), Treatise on Man & the Development of His Faculties, Retrieved on 2012-06-08

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