If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent. β¨ Aspects of the Novel. Book by E. M. Forster, 1927.
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- Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it. β¨ E M Forster (2011). Maurice, p.81, Hachette UK
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