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The Concept of Responsibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

J. E. MacDonald*
Affiliation:
Runwell Hospital, near Wickford, Essex

Extract

“No man is an iland, intire of itselfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the Maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were: any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”—John Donne.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1955 

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