“The only worthy end of all learning, of all science, of all life, in fact, is, that human beings should love o…”

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The only worthy end of all learning, of all science, of all life, in fact, is, that human beings should love one another better. Culture merely for culture's sake can never be anything but a sapless root, capable of producing at best a shrivelled branch.

— John Walter Cross

Banker and biographer of George Eliot

John Walter Cross, George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885), Vol. III, p. 429 (giving George Eliot's view, which "was often in her mind and on her lips")

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Attributed to: John Walter Cross
Source: John Walter Cross, George Eliot's Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885), Vol. III, p. 429 (giving George Eliot's view, which "was often in her mind and on her lips")
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