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Occasionally we have experiences that make us proud to be members of the human race. When we watch a play by Shakespeare, or listen to a Mozart symphony, or look at a Rembrandt painting, or admire an Ansel Adams photograph, or benefit from a medical discovery—in those moments we feel thrilled and uplifted. We sense that this sort of thing is the work of homo sapiens at its best.
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John K. Roth, and James M. Smith, eds, Will Genocide Ever End? (St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2002).
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, trans. Justin O’Brien (New York: Vintage Books, 1955), p. 89.
Stephen T. Davis, ed., Encountering Evil, 2nd edn (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001).
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Davis, S.T. (2005). Genocide, Despair, and Religious Hope: An Essay on Human Nature. In: Roth, J.K. (eds) Genocide and Human Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554832_4
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