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Sympathy is consciousness of kind. It is the putting of one's self in the place of another, the projection of one's own personality into the periphery of another and sharing or simulating by means of the imagination the emotions of that other. Sympathy is the lily of the imagination.

— J. Howard Moore Better-World Philosophy: A Sociological Synthesis (1899)

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