“At the root are these moral intuitions — these gut feelings — and they are very strong,” said Jeff Huntsinger, a social psychologist at Loyola University Chicago who studies emotion and decision-making and collaborated with Dr. Omer’s team.

In the sitting of the Roumanian Parliament on 27 December last Professor Iorga uttered these Dostojevskian words of comfort: “In our past there has been much suffering. If we have attained something it is not through the victories of our ancestors but through what they have suffered.”

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I forgot to turn on the burner under the soup and found it sitting there, still stone cold, twenty minutes later.