Reading Hegel

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    Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.
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    But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
    —Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)