"With our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States we have friendly relations and a common sympathy," Wood said.
Even if a "wise producer" can make more money by hiring children or looting someone's pension fund, he won't, because he knows such actions "will break the bonds of common sympathy, the sense that we're all in this together, on which the producer's…well-being ultimately depends".
I've learned that there is no common sympathy.
In 1919, in the first issue of the company newsletter, the Beacon, Boot wrote to his staff: "Fellowship in recreation, fellowship in ideals, common hope, common sympathies, and common humanity bind us together; and whatever fosters this happy union is valuable".
A people is a group of individuals ruled by a common government, bound together by common sympathies, and firmly attached to a common conception of right and justice.
Education reformer John Dewey in 1902 wrote about public schools as the center of civic life — where people come together "by the promotion of common sympathies and a common understanding".
"That common understanding and sympathy toward each other's situations was probably the best thing about recovery communities for me," explains Daisy, a recovered sufferer of anorexia who became a part of the "recovery community" in October 2013.
Schadenfreude for a clever fool who broke the law in ways to drive the feeblest imagination to a whispery chorus of there-but-for-the-grace...? Or plain, lowest common denominator sympathy for a family cursed with unimaginable punishment that seems so incalculably unfit for the crimes involved?
And one of the things many of those parties have in common is sympathy for the policies of Vladimir Putin in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
The liaison was founded on common interests, natural sympathy, and a deepening friendship.
DID some desperate urge to be hailed a world champion again in his home city push Ben Johnson beyond logic, common sense and sympathy?
