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213 Notes Preface 1. Simone Weil, “Morality and Literature,” in On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (London: Oxford University Press, 1968), 160. 2. Stephen Jay Gould, “Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness,” Natural History (December 1988): 12–17. 3. Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (New York: Macmillan Company, 1958), 259. Chapter 1. Vignettes: Range and Variety of Goodness 1. Jerome Kagan, “Human Morality,” in An Argument for Mind (Cambridge , Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), 127–72; Richard A. Schweder, “Humans Really Are Different,” Science, 5 February 1999, 798–99. 2. Maynard Solomon, Mozart: A Life (New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 4. 3. Norbert Elias, Mozart: Portrait of a Genius (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 76. 4. Mary Gaitskill, “The Dream of Men,” New Yorker, 23 November 1998. 5. George Steiner, Errata (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998), 43. 6. New Yorker, 4 July 1977, 19–20. 7. Malcolm Muggeridge, Jesus: The Man Who Lives (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 113. 8. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World (New York: Carroll & Graff, 1989), 249, 256. 9. Paul Monette, Becoming a Man (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992), 161–62. 214 10. New Yorker, 27 June 1977, 84. 11. Alex Shoumatoff, “The Ituri Forest,” New Yorker, 6 February 1984, 88. 12. Alan Bennett, “What I Did in 1966,” London Review of Books, 2 January 1997, 7. 13. W. H. Lewis, The Splendid Century (New York: Morrow Quill Paperback , 1978), 202. 14. Lance Morrow, in an interview with Václav Havel, Time, 3 August 1992, 48. 15. Václav Havel, Summer Meditations (New York: Vintage Books, 1993), 9, 15. 16. The Diary of Virginia Woolf (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), 3:73. 17. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings, 1939–1944 (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986), 110–11. 18. Tracy Kidder, “The Siege of Mirebalais,” New Yorker, 17 April 1955, 77. 19. Alphonso Lingis, The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), 158–59. 20. New Yorker, 9 July 1990, 25–26. 21. Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (New York: Vintage Books, 1988), 269. 22. Arnold Toynbee, Acquaintances (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), 89–90. 23. Science, 13 May 1988, 876. 24. Iris Murdoch, Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals (New York: Allen Lane/ Penguin Press, 1992), 430. 25. F. A. Worsley, Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure (New York: Norton , reprinted 1999), 97. 26. Albert Schweitzer, A Place for Revelation: Sermons on Reverence for Life (New York: Macmillan, 1988), 120. 27. Albert Schweitzer, Memoirs of Childhood and Youth (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1977), 79. 28. Robert Coles, Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1987), 43. 29. Tolstoy’s Diaries, ed. and trans. R. F. Christian (London: Flamingo, 1994), 397. Notes to pages 12–33 215 30. Albert Schweitzer, Civilization and Ethics (New York: Macmillan, 1929), 267. 31. William James, Essays on Faith and Morals (New York: New American Library, 1974), 19–20. 32. John Cowper Powys, Autobiography (Colgate: Colgate University Press, 1994), 276–77. 33. Tzvetan Todorov, Facing the Extreme (New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996), 202. 34. Mother Teresa, No Greater Love (Novato, Calif.: New World Library, 1997), 55. 35. See Jill Haak Adels, The Wisdom of the Saints (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), 45. 36. See Josef Pieper, Death and Immortality (South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine Press, 2000), 5. 37. Helen Dukas and Banish Hoffman, eds., Albert Einstein: The Human Side (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989), 23, 102. 38. Psychology Today (September 1983): 30, 32. 39. New Yorker, 27 September 1997, 53. 40. New York Times, 4 August 1991. 41. Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 34; Brand Blanshard, Four Reasonable Men (Amherst: Wesleyan University Press, 1984), 257. 42. William Stringfellow, My People Is the Enemy (New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1966), 45. 43. Wilfred Thesinger, Arabian Sands (New York: Dutton, 1959), 123–24. 44. James, Essays on Faith and Morals, 195. 45. Hannah Arendt, Responsibility and Judgment (New York: Schocken Books, 2003), 63. 46. New Yorker, 19 August 1985, 20. 47. Simone Pétrement, Simone Weil: A Life (New York: Pantheon Books, 1976), 416. 48. Bruce Schechter, My Brain Is Open (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 17, 161–62. 49. New York Times, 18 December 1999. Notes to pages 34–49 216 50. Charles Darwin’s Autobiography (New York: Collier Books...