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The modern Western adult\u2019s fear about himself is that, to put it as crudely as possible, his hatred is stronger than his love; that there is, in the British psychoanalyst Ernest Jones\u2019s words, \u201cmuch less love in the world than there appears to be.\u201d Our kindness is chronically in doubt (and not, as philosophical skeptics have traditionally tried to persuade us, our existence.) Childhood has become the last bastion of kindness, the last place where we may find more love in the world than there appears to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor\u2019s book, On Kindness<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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