I display the times; I appeal to the age. The public is never advantaged. Certainly, mankind has not sacrificed his rights. If mankind dared but to listen to the voice of his heart, changing suddenly the language, he would say to us, as he would to the animals of the woods: Nature created neither servant nor master; I seek neither to rule nor to serve. And his hands would weave the entrails of the priest, for the lack of a cord with which to strangle kings.
