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species, Homo sapiens. "As the Earth nourishes all, and the sun shines on all, so let your fraternal sympathy extend to all men and women, excluding none,” he wrote; and proceeded to quote from the ancient epic, Mahabharata, which teaches this ideal in Sanskrit verse:
Small souls enquire, 'Belongs this man To our own race or sect or clan But larger-hearted men embrace As brothers all the human race."
-Pro. GBK, Hooja
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