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Orson Scott Card, The Worthing Saga Quotes: If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.
         

If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.


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This page presents the quote "If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.". Author of this quote is Orson Scott Card, The Worthing Saga. This quote is about compassion, evolution, elephants,.