Key to Our Civilization

If I were to give you, in one sentence, a key to what may seem the mysteries of our civilization as compared with that of your age, I should say that it is the fact that the solidarity of the race and the brotherhood of man, which to you were but fine phrases, are, to our thinking and feeling, ties as real and as vital as physical fraternity.

Dr. Leete Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) by Edward Bellamy

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Context: Dr. Leete answers Julian's doubt that society could care for everyone like family.

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Source: Chapter 12

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