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Sustaining All Life
at COP27: PHOTOS

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The Best Model of Humanness

By far the best model of humanness we have is the one presented in our literature. Most RC writing consists of people writing about their own lives, their own experiences; writing about the things they know best. Also, because it is in writing, it has been thought about many more times than has the typical spoken word. The written word is amenable to being examined repeatedly, edited, corrected, improved, enhanced.

Harvey Jackins

From pages 311 to 312 of ”A Needed Kind of Activist—the ‘Literature Enthusiast,’” in A Better World

(Present Time 186, January 2017)

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