Translation: He constantly proselytized and had outbursts of fanaticism against laymen, skeptics, and unbelievers. - Charles Binet-Sanglé

Translation: To be sure that we only love him, he demands that we hate those close to us and that we hate ourselves, a monstrous order which is still followed to the letter by the half-crazy people of our monasteries.

Translation: Let us oppose truth to error, evidence to faith, science to religion. Religious propagandists teach children only one doctrine. Let us make them acquainted with all the doctrines, not only in their present state, but in their genesis and in their development. Let us educate them about the resemblances and analogies that they have between them, and also about the resemblances and analogies that their founders and their propagators have between them. Then let's leave them free to choose between the hypotheses, and if none of the old ones satisfy them, free to imagine new ones.

Comme beaucoup de dégénérés, Ieschou n'avait pas le sentiment de la famille. Son indifférence à l'égard de sa mère eut pour résultat de placer la pauvre paysanne au dernier rang dans sa suite.