{"id":60,"date":"2007-06-12T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T03:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/wordpress\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-06-12T22:38:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T03:38:37","slug":"awe-in-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2007\/06\/12\/awe-in-morality\/","title":{"rendered":"Awe in Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man’s pride”<\/em>
\n– William James
\n– The Mammals<\/a>, “Industrial Park”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,12,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQyAq-Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47,"url":"https:\/\/www.onvural.net\/melih\/thoughts\/2007\/03\/09\/encroachment-in-information-mining-technologies-part-v\/","url_meta":{"origin":60,"position":0},"title":"Encroachment in Information Mining Technologies - Part V","date":"March 9, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This brings up the issue of protection and its relationship with privacy. 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