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Egerton Ryerson (1871) writes, “But whatever may be the diversity of terms or of expression, all agree as to the existence and office of conscience. Of its tremendous and often crushing power we have frequent illustrations” (p. 55). The broad opinion is that conscience is part of human nature. “There is a mass of evidence that shows that conscience, this moral sense, this inner light, is a universal phenomenon” (Covey, 2004, p. 77).
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Holtam, B.W. (2012). The Fundamentals of Conscience. In: Let’s Call it What it is. Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching, vol 6. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-007-1_4
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