>>Another "reminds me..."
Seems to me that this sort of decency has decayed visibly during our lifetimes. Easiest to call it one of the prices of a secular society, but actually the truth is that many of our generation are unspeakably selfish and proud of it.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
