questioning the boundaries of charity

…our idea of that tranquility and peace which seems to be overspread and cast abroad upon the whole earth and universe naturally dissolves itself into the idea of a general love and delight, everywhere diffused.

Jonathan Edwards, “The Mind” in Works of J. E., Volume 6, p. 365

…it is the choice of humans to welcome those unlike as well as like ourselves as those to whom we have specific responsibilities and with whom we share a common life.

Celia E. Deane-Drummond, The Ethics of Nature, p. 73