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"'''Man's inhumanity to man'''" is a line from [[Robert Burns]]' 1784 poem "'''[[Man was made to Mourn|Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge]]'''". The line and the poem have since been quoted in relation to the [[problem of evil]], especially referencing wars and genocide.
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It is possible that Burns reworded a similar quote from [[Samuel von Pufendorf]] who in 1673 wrote, "More inhumanity has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes."{{Cn|date=September 2022}} In 1798 the English poet [[William Wordsworth]] adapted it in his ''[[Lines Written in Early Spring]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dabundo |first=Laura |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KMeOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 |title=Encyclopedia of Romanticism (Routledge Revivals): Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s |date=2009-10-15 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-23235-1 |pages=68 |language=en}}</ref>
The line "man's inhumanity to man" has been widely quoted since Burns' poem was first published, in reference to wars, mistreatment of indigenous people and nations, and, according to historian Mark Celinscak, other "acts of extreme violence".<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Celinscak |first=Mark |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3LnwCgAAQBAJ |title=Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp |date=2015-01-01 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-1-4426-1570-0 |pages=11 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hughey |first=Michael W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=alTeCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 |title=New Tribalisms: The Resurgence of Race and Ethnicity |date=2016-03-29 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-349-26403-2 |pages=55 |language=en}}</ref> It is still broadly associated with Burns' poem.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Roth |first=Hans Ingvar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NM9tDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA159&dq=%22Man's+inhumanity+to+man%22+idiom+burns&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwirk4De6KT6AhU_hYkEHV39ABoQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Man's%20inhumanity%20to%20man%22%20idiom%20burns&f=false |title=P. C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |date=2018-09-10 |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |isbn=978-0-8122-9547-4 |pages=159 |language=en}}</ref> Celinscak writes that the phrase has become [[wikt:Banal|banal]] due to "decades of overuse", noting that it was commonly used to describe the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] during World War II.<ref name=":3" /> The line was cited six times by [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] in his autobiography.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=McGuirk |first=Carol |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-C47CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT216 |title=Reading Robert Burns: Texts, Contexts, Transformations |date=2015-10-06 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-31734-0 |language=en}}</ref>
== References ==
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[[Category:Robert Burns]]
[[Category:Quotations from literature]]
[[Category:Quotations from philosophy]]
[[Category:English words and phrases]]
[[Category:1780s neologisms]]
[[Category:Adaptations of works by Robert Burns]]
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