…the simplest reason would tell each individual that he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies extending to the men of all nations and races.
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Charles Darwin 1809–1882 · English naturalist who set out the theory of evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species. Wikipedia