'To Bless All Mankind' May 23, 2016 ISSUE

The power behind brotherly love

Liz Butterfield Wallingford

There’s a single ingredient that can tangibly help people and nations around the world, explains the column on the facing page: “The substance is philia, which goes by its generic name brotherly love.”

I have to admit, it seemed so obvious that at first I felt a little underwhelmed. Of course behaving kindly to one another makes the world a better place, right? But as I continued reading, I realized there’s much more to it than that.

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