In the actual state of social relationships, the forms of politeness are necessary as a subsitute for benevolence. - African Spir

To spend for destruction ten times more than for instruction, such is the fashion in our time; and men seriously regard themsleves as rational beings!

Injustice having always been predominant on earth, there are some who imagine that this existing social order will continue forever. That this order was able to last until now, has mainly been due to the conviction of people that it was of divine institution.

As humanity began with flint tools, and has arrived little by little to the powerful and perfected machines of today, so man, by shaping himself generation after generation, will arrive to a degree of perfection which, up to now, the example was given to us only by rare individuals.