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Christopher Morley

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

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Christopher Morley suggests that humans are naturally aggressive because they have inherited this trait from the natural world around them. Therefore, it is unreasonable to criticize people harshly for fighting since this behavior is a learned instinct from nature itself.

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