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Bill Bullard, Dean of Faculty at San Francisco University High School. For the Faculty, graduation speech, 2 June 2007 (not delivered in person due to food poisoninghttps://casnocha.com/2007/07/three-things-to.html). While the word "empathy" had not been coined in Eliot's lifetime, Eliot described her project as "to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves in everything but the broad fact of being struggling erring human creatures".The George Eliot Letters in six volumes edited by Gordon Sherman Haight, Volume 3, pg 111. Quoted in Anna Lindhé: The Paradox of Narrative Empathy and the Form of the Novel, or What George Eliot Knew.
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The highest form of knowledge, according to George Eliot, is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world.

— Bill Bullard

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The highest form of knowledge, according to George Eliot, is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world." in the context of "Bill Bullard, Dean of Faculty at San Francisco University High School. For the Faculty, graduation speech, 2 June 2007 (not delivered in person due to food poisoninghttps://casnocha.com/2007/07/three-things-to.html). While the word "empathy" had not been coined in Eliot's lifetime, Eliot described her project as "to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves in everything but the broad fact of being struggling erring human creatures".The George Eliot Letters in six volumes edited by Gordon Sherman Haight, Volume 3, pg 111. Quoted in Anna Lindhé: The Paradox of Narrative Empathy and the Form of the Novel, or What George Eliot Knew." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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George Eliot

About George Eliot

George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans; 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880) was an English novelist and poet. Despite the strong social customs of her times against such arrangements, she lived unmarried with fellow writer George Henry Lewes‎‎ for over 20 years.