Richard Whately Quote

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.


Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley (ed. 1856)


Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never ...

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never ...

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never ...

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never ...